America 2026 : Amérique, Europe, Révolutions, Indépendance et Commémorations dans l’espace Atlantique
The centre of reference in France and in Europe on the histories and legacies of the American Revolution.
Based in France, AMERICA2026 is a collaborative program of scholarly events, publications and resources centred on the histories and legacies of the American Revolution in comparative European and transatlantic perspective. It brings together senior and junior researchers from France, Europe, the United States, Japan and Mexico contributing collaboratively and in a global and decentred perspective to the debates and the academic and cultural productions surrounding the commemorations of the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States in 2026.
What’s New?
EMPIRE OF PELTS French Fur Traders in North America,1600–1840
Empire of Pelts sheds new light on the history of early North America by reconsidering the misunderstood social figure of the coureur de bois, born in Canada in the second half of the seventeenth century, who underwent many iterations across North America through the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Gilles Havard conceptualizes the traveling cultures of the fur trade that emerged from the encounter between colonial and Native American societies. Variously known as coureurs de bois, voyageurs, Indian traders, hunters, northmen, freemen, and mountain men, these men, while collecting pelts, played a crucial role in the understanding and perception of Native American cultures.
