A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America
University of Pennsylvania Press · 2018
French colonists arrived in North America expecting a new world. What they found, this book argues, was a landscape already known, named, and cultivated — and their science of the New World was built in conversation with the Indigenous peoples who knew it best.
- Prix Lionel-Groulx, Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française
- Honorable mention, Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society
Selected articles
- The Natural History of Colonial Science: Joseph-François Lafitau's Discovery of Ginseng and its Afterlives The William & Mary Quarterly 73, no. 1 (2016): 37–72 The specimen behind this site belongs to this story.
- Wildness without Wilderness: The Biogeography of Empire in Seventeenth-Century French North America Environmental History 22, no. 4 (2017): 643–67
- Ecosystems under Sail: Specimen Transport in the Eighteenth-Century French and British Atlantics with Kathleen S. Murphy · Early American Studies 10, no. 3 (2012): 503–29