User:History-fisheries/Bernard Allaire

Bernard Allaire (Born in Quebec city in 1960) is a Quebecer historian living in France. He is graduate of the Université Laval (Québec) and of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales of Paris. He is a socio-economic specialist of Ancien Régime European and North American Urban and maritime civilizations.

He is the author of the books Pelleteries, manchons et chapeaux de castor : les fourrures nord-américaines à Paris 1500-1632, (Québec, Septentrion et Paris, Presses universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 1999) winner of the Jean-Charles-Falardeau award for the best work in social-sciences ; of Crépuscules ultramontains : marchands italiens et grand commerce à Bordeaux au XVIe siècle, (Bordeaux, PUB, 2008) winner of the Louis Desgraves award from the Académie nationale des belles-lettres et arts de Bordeaux ; of La Rumeur Dorée: Roberval et l'Amérique (Montréal, La Presse, 2013) and more recently, of the collective work Law, Labour and Empire: Comparative Perspectives on seafarers c. 1500-1800, (Londres, Palgrave, 2015) on maritime history.

He is involved in many historical, archaeological and sociological research projects in connection with European and North-American specialists. He particularly enjoys historical topics which complete the expertise of other historians or archaeologists and also study north-american Indian societies, correspondence networks and history of crafts and sciences. After working for the Parisian bureau of the National Archives of Canada and the CELAT (Université Laval) he was involved in the history of the European explorations of North America among others, with the british research group ARTAF on the history of the voyage of Martin Frobisher, with the Éditions du Septentrion on the history of Samuel de Champlain, with the Texas Historical Commission on the expedition of Cavelier de La Salle or the SCIAA on the voyage of the ship Le Prince in South Carolina in the 16th century.

As specialist in calligraphy and ancient manuscripts, he studied European systems of administrative, commercial and diplomatic exchange and correspondence with America for American, Canadian and European research groups. He cooperated with the DRASSM in records related to the history of coastal shipwrecks and works with the Commission de la capitale nationale du Québec on the history of the archaeological site of Cartier-Roberval in Cap-Rouge, near Quebec City. He is also honorary fellow of the University of Exeter (UK) on the history of the Anglo-Dutch shipping in Mediterranean Sea on the ERC project Sailing into Modernity of prof Maria Fusaro. He has been involved since 2016 with the History Department of Trinity College Dublin in Ireland on the history of fisheries from the 16th to the 18th century.

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 * Fiche sur www.septentrion.qc.ca
 * Curriculum vitæ
 * Fiche sur www.septentrion.qc.ca
 * Curriculum vitæ