Christopher Parsons

The Natural History of Colonial Science: Joseph-Franois Lafitau's Discovery of Ginseng and Its Afterlives. CM Parsons The William and Mary Quarterly 73 (1), 37-72, 2016.

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Essay: "Old Roots, New Shoots: Early American Environmental History," Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Introduction to the special issue); with Cameron Strang. (forthcoming, April 2015)

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Review: Crouch, Christian Ayne, Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), New England Quarterly 88, no. 1 (March 2015): 164 - 66.

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Old Roots, New Shoots: Early American Environmental History. CM Parsons, CB Strang Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 13 (2), 279-284, 2015.

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Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of the New France. CM Parsons NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS 88 ..., 2015.

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Cultivating a New France: Knowledge, Empire and Environment in the French Atlantic World, under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press Edited Volume "Early America and the Environment," Special Issue of Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, guest edited with Cameron Strang (Forthcoming, April 2015)

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"Biogeography and Empire in French North America," The Atlantic World Workshop, New York University, New York, NY "Discovering New France in colonial North America," Explorations, Encounters, and the Circulation of Knowledge, 1600-1830, Session 1: Explorations and Encounters: New Directions. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, California 11. 2014

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By Treachery and Seduction: Indian Baptism and Conversion in the Roger Williams Code (pp. 175-202). S Knott, CM Parsons, MP Grier, E Hart The William and Mary Quarterly 71 (2), 2014.

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Natives, Newcomers and Nicotiana: Tobacco in the History of the Great Lakes Region. CM Parsons French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630 - 1815, 21 - 41, 2013.

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Review: Radisson, Pierre-Esprit, The Collected Writings. Vol. 1. The Voyages. ed. Germain Warkentin (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press / Toronto: The Champlain Society, 2012), Renaissance and Reformation 36, no. 4 (Fall 2013): 185 - 87.

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Invited Contribution: "Science in New France," contribution to the Virtual Museum of New France organized by the Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, QC (2012): English: "The Natural History of Colonial Science: Joseph-Francois Lafitau's Discovery of Ginseng and its Afterlives," William & Mary Quarterly * accepted "Apprendre en apprivoisant: La domestication comme lieu de rencontre dans la France coloniale d'Amerique du Nord," in De l'observation a l'inscription: les savoirs sur l'Amerique entre 1600 et 1830 dans les textes d'expression francaise, eds. Thomas Wien and Nathalie Vuillemin (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment) * accepted "Of Natives, Newcomers and Nicotiana: Tobacco in the History of the Great Lakes Region," in French and Indians in the Heart of North America eds. Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013), 21 - 41.

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Special issue on "Natural Science in the New World: The Descriptive Enterprise" http://www.civilization.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/daily-life/science/; French: http://www.civilisations.ca/musee-virtuel-de-la-nouvelle-france/vie-quotidienne/sciences/ Review: Bleichmar, Daniela and Peter Mancall, eds, Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), British Journal for the History of Science 45, no.1 (March 2012): 128 - 129.

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Histoire de la pharmacie en France et en Nouvelle-France au XVIIIe sicle. Par Stphanie Tsio.(Qubec: Presses de lUniversit Laval, 2009. xxx+ 331 p., ill., tab., notes, bibl., ann. ISBN 978-2-7637-8622-3 $34.95) Histoire de la pharmacie en France et en Nouvelle-France au XVIIIe sicle. Par Stphanie Tsio.(Qubec: Presses de lUniversit Laval, 2009. xxx+ 331 p., ill., tab., notes, bibl., ann. ISBN 978-2-7637-8622-3 $34.95). CM Parsons Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology ..., 2012.

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Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall, Collecting across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Pp. xvi+ 361. ISBN 978-0-8122-4305-5. 32.50. CM Parsons .

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Ecosystems under Sail: Specimen Transport in the Eighteenth-Century French and British Atlantics. CM Parsons, KS Murphy Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10 (3), 503-529, 2012.

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Review: Tesio, Stephanie, Histoire de la pharmacie en France et en Nouvelle-France au 18e siecle (Quebec: Presses de l'Universite Laval 2009), Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the Canadian Science and Technology Association 35, no.1-2 (2012) 212 - 15.

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"Ecosystems under Sail: Specimen Transport in the Eighteenth-Century French and British Atlantics," Early American Studies, vol.10, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 503 - 529; with Kathleen S. Murphy Winner of John M. Murrin Prize for best essay published in Early American Studies in 2012

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Plants and Peoples: French and Indigenous Botanical Knowledges in Colonial North America, 16001760. CM Parsons University of Toronto, 2011.

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Mapping Ethnogenesis in the Early Modern Atlantic (pp. 181-208). S Knott, CM Parsons, MP Grier, E Hart The William and Mary Quarterly 68 (2), 2011.

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Invited Contribution: Marcelo Aranda, Katherine Arner, Lina del Castillo, Helen Cowie, Matthew Crawford, Joseph Cullon, Marcelo Figueroa, Claire Gherini, Melissa Grafe, Sarah Irving, Ryan Kashanipour, Carla Lois, Adrian Lopez-Denis, Bertie Mandelblatt, Iris Montero Sobrevilla, Kathleen Murphy, Eric Otremba, Christopher Parsons, Heather Peterson, Emily Senior, Teresa Vergara, Kelly Wisecup and Anya Zilberstein, "The history of Atlantic science: Collective reflections from the 2009 Harvard seminar on Atlantic history," Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural and Historical Perspectives, vol. 7, issue 4 (2010): 493 - 509.

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The history of Atlantic science: Collective reflections from the 2009 Harvard seminar on Atlantic history. M Aranda, K Arner, L del Castillo, H Cowie, M Crawford, J Cullon, ... Atlantic Studies 7 (4), 493-509, 2010.

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Territorial Crossings: Histories and Historiographies of the Early Americas (pp. 395-432). S Knott, CM Parsons, MP Grier, E Hart The William and Mary Quarterly 67 (3), 2010.

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The Politics of Grass: European Expansion, Ecological Change, and Indigenous Power in the Southwest Borderlands (pp. 173-208). S Knott, CM Parsons, MP Grier, E Hart The William and Mary Quarterly 67 (2), 2010.

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Model Empire, Lost City: Ancient Carthage and the Science of Politics in Revolutionary America (pp. 3-30). S Knott, CM Parsons, MP Grier, E Hart The William and Mary Quarterly 67 (1), 2010.

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Special issue on "Itineraries of Atlantic science - new questions, new approaches, new directions" Invited Contribution: "Involving and acknowledging Indigenous peoples," Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE), (2010) http://niche-canada.org/node/9129

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"Medical Encounters and Exchanges in Early Canadian Missions," Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the Canadian Science and Technology Association, vol. 31, no.1 (2008): 49 - 66.

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Medical Encounters and Exchange in Early Canadian Missions. C Parsons Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology ..., 2008.

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Review: Horn, Tammy, Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006) Material Culture: The Journal of the American Pioneer Society vol. 40, no. 1

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"An American Tree in Paris" Arader Galleries, New York, NY Commentator, Early Modern France and the Americas: Connected Histories, Boston

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Invited Contribution: "Ginseng in Canada?" In I found it at the JCB: Scholars and Sources http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/I%20found%20it%20JCB/august08

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Invited Contribution: " 'I report only what I have learned from my savages': Naturalists, missionaries and the encounter with the indigenous knowledges of French North America." Working - 29.

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