Pour une histoire environnementale « connectée » de la Nouvelle-France

Abstract

Although environmental history is undeniably a booming and growing branch of the field, it is still seldom applied to New France, even if some research exists that could contribute to it. This article aims at reviewing the works already released concerning the period, either incorporated in wide, diachronic studies or focusing on French America and the spaces composing it. The accounts on the latter often deal with the various ways in which Europeans worked with and adapted to the American environment. This narrative could be fleshed out and made more nuanced by connecting the environmental history of New France to other American, Atlantic or French spaces.