Wien Thomas
Professor
Department of History
University of Montreal
Canada
Biography
Wien Thomas says as, My research focuses on the history of New France at length and its European extensions. I am interested in circulations of all kinds (people, goods, knowledge, information) between Amerindian and French America, and Western and Central Europe (1660-1800). I continue my work on the North American fur trade circuit, in a finally hemispheric space stretching from the Amerindian country eastward to the far reaches of Asia. A project on the circulation of knowledge aims at natural history as a device of appropriation, for the moment through the work of Jean-François Gaultier (1708-1756), physician of the king in Quebec and correspondent of the Royal Academy of science. I am also exploring the field of historiography and popular memories, including the posthumous trajectory of the French Regime in Canada since the Conquest of 1759.
Research Interest
New France, Atlantic worlds, Historiography, French diet in Canada, Colonial knowledge, communications.
