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Catherine Desbarats

Catherine Desbarats
Contact Information
Address: 

Department of History
855, rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Phone: 
514-396-1980
Email address: 
catherine.desbarats [at] mcgill.ca
Position: 
Associate Professor / Professeure agr茅g茅e
Office: 
Leacock 621
Degree(s): 

PhD History/Histoire (成人VR视频); D Phil Economics/Sciences 茅conomiques (Oxford)

Specialization: 

Specialization by time period/Aires chronologiques de sp茅cialisation:
1450 - 1800

Specialization by geographical area/Aires g茅ographiques de sp茅cialisation:
North America, Atlantic World /听Am茅rique du Nord, Monde atlantique

Office hours: 

By appointment during the summer.

Heures de r茅ception :听par rendez-vous pendant l鈥櫭﹖茅

Biography: 

Trained as both a historian and an economist, Professor Desbarats鈥 research and writing concerns mainly the history of the early modern colonial state, particularly its financial aspects. In both her teaching and writing, she has a deep interest in decolonizing the history of the Early Modern French empire, beginning with narratives relating to New France. She has published historiographic pieces on that topic in journals such as the William and Mary Quarterly, the Revue d鈥檋istoire de l鈥橝m茅rique fran莽aise and the Journal of Early American History. Her encounters with Indigenous history have led her to think differently about the financing of empires, and the history of economic thought itself. Canada鈥檚 seventeenth-century playing-card currency appears less as a picturesque footnote known only to numismatists and monetary specialists, and more of a window onto technologies of imperial violence and expansion. Such themes are explored in her SSHRC-financed book- in-progress, 鈥淢oney and Empire in New France.鈥

She is currently co-researcher on the Onkwehon:we project : Territory, Identity and Social Interactions in Ancestral Iroquoia : a collaborative and interdisciplinary SSHRC-funded research partnership.

Biographie:

Form茅e 脿 la fois comme historienne et 茅conomiste, Catherine Desbarats a concentr茅 ses travaux sur l鈥檋istoire de l鈥櫭塼at colonial 脿 l鈥櫭﹑oque moderne, en particulier sur ses aspects financiers. Dans son enseignement comme dans ses publications, elle s鈥檌nt茅resse profond茅ment 脿 la d茅colonisation de l鈥檋istoire de l鈥檈xpansion imp茅riale fran莽aise de l鈥櫭﹑oque moderne, en commen莽ant par les r茅cits li茅s 脿 la Nouvelle-France. Elle a publi茅 des articles historiographiques sur ce sujet dans des revues telles que le William and Mary Quarterly, la Revue d鈥檋istoire de l鈥橝m茅rique fran莽aise et le Journal of Early American History. Ses lectures de l鈥檋istoire autochtone l鈥檕nt amen茅e 脿 r茅fl茅chir diff茅remment au financement des empires, ainsi qu鈥櫭 l鈥檋istoire m锚me de la pens茅e 茅conomique. Dans une telle perspective, la monnaie de cartes 脿 jouer du Canada du XVIIe si猫cle appara卯t moins comme le d茅tail pittoresque notoire des numismates et des historiens de la monnaie, et davantage comme une fen锚tre sur les technologies de la violence et de l鈥檈xpansion imp茅riales. Ces th猫mes sont explor茅s dans son livre en cours, financ茅 par le CRSH, intitul茅 鈥楳oney and Empire in New France.鈥

Elle est co-chercheure associ茅e au Projet Onkweh贸n:we : territoire, identit茅 et interactions sociales en Iroquoianie ancestrale : un projet de partenariat de recherches collaboratives et interdisciplinaires financ茅e par le CRSH.

Graduate supervision: 

New France, French Empire and French听Atlantic, European/Indigenous Encounters.

Direction d鈥櫭﹖udes sup茅rieures:

Nouvelle-France, Empire fran莽ais de l鈥櫭﹑oque moderne, Monde Atlantique fran莽ais, Rapports entre Autochtones et Fran莽ais.

Courses: 


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