Gettler Brian

Biography

Brian Gettler’s research focuses on First Nations’ economic, political, and social history and the history of Quebec and Canada since the Conquest. He has published articles in Histoire sociale / Social History, the Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, and the Bulletin d'histoire politique in addition to several edited collections. Gettler’s book manuscript, Colonialism’s Currency: A Political History of First Nations Money-Use in Quebec and Ontario, 1820-1950, analyzes the experience of three culturally, historically and geographically distinct First Nations alongside the monetary dimensions of British and Canadian Indian policy and corporate policy in the fur trade. Rather than focusing on the perhaps obvious ways in which wealth shaped politics, it concentrates on money as both a symbol around which discourses of appropriate behaviour were articulated and as a concrete tool in the governance of peoples and lands. His current research explores Kahnawà:ke and Kanehsatà:ke Mohawk participation in Montreal’s economy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Brian Gettler’s research focuses on First Nations’ economic, political, and social history and the history of Quebec and Canada since the Conquest. He has published articles in Histoire sociale / Social History, the Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, and the Bulletin d'histoire politique in addition to several edited collections. Gettler’s book manuscript, Colonialism’s Currency: A Political History of First Nations Money-Use in Quebec and Ontario, 1820-1950, analyzes the experience of three culturally, historically and geographically distinct First Nations alongside the monetary dimensions of British and Canadian Indian policy and corporate policy in the fur trade. Rather than focusing on the perhaps obvious ways in which wealth shaped politics, it concentrates on money as both a symbol around which discourses of appropriate behaviour were articulated and as a concrete tool in the governance of peoples and lands. His current research explores Kahnawà:ke and Kanehsatà:ke Mohawk participation in Montreal’s economy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Research Interest

First Nations’ economic, political, and social history and the history of Quebec and Canada since the Conquest