Béatrice Craig
Full Professor, Department of History
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: 155 Séraphin Marion Street, room 306
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1306
E-mail: bcraig@uOttawa.ca
University degrees
1983 – PhD History, University of Maine
1975 – M.ès L. Études américaines, Université de Lille III
1973 – L. ès L. Littérature anglaise, Université de Lille III
Fields of interest
Broadly speaking, I am interested in the socio-economic and socio-cultural impacts of the emergence of industrial capitalism on Atlantic societies. My research falls under two headings:
- Economic and social transformations of eastern Canadian rural society in the late eighteenth and in the nineteenth century. This research privileges comparative and transnational approaches.
- Recent project: Backwood consumers and homespuncapitalists (see publications below).
- Evolving roles of middle class women and middle families in northern France during and in the aftermath of the industrial revolution.
- Recent project: Women in business and retail; see Women, business and finance in nineteenth century Europe, rethinking separate spheres below.
Ongoing research
North American history
- Upcoming project: An investigation of the relationship between consumption patterns, evolving social structures, and political ideology in Quebec and New Brunswick in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
Women’s history
- Current project: The business of life. Women and entrepreneurship in northern France in the nineteenth century. Book manuscript in preparation.
Courses taught
On rotation
- HIS2362 British North America
- HIS2183 Women in the Western World to 1750
- HIS2184 Women in the Western World since 1750
- HIS2583 Les femmes dans le monde Occidental jusqu’en 1750
- HIS2584 Les femmes dans le monde Occidental depuis 1750
- HIS4182 Seminar in Women’s History (Were there ever separate spheres? Women and Gender roles in the 18th and 19th century)
- HIS4535 Séminaire en histoire du Canadas ( Les Acadiens entre déportation et multiculturalisme)
- HIS7131 Seminar in Women’s History (Women. Gender and Consumption in western societies , eighteenth to twentieth century)
Selected publications
Canadian history
Books
Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2009.
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With Maxime Dagenais, The Land in Between: A History of Madawaska 13000 BP to World War One. Gardiner, Me: Tilbury House.
Articles and book chapters
2005 – “Farm transmission and the commercialization of agriculture in northern Maine in the second half of the nineteenth century" History of the family, an international Quarterly, 10, 327-344.
2005 – “Before Borderlands: Yankees, British, and the St John Valley French," in Stephen J. Hornsby and John G. Reid, eds, New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 74-93.
2005 –“Agricultural settlements, 1750-1850", "Acadian village", “New England Acadians" essays in Encyclopedia of New England Culture, Yale University Press, August 2005, 24-26; 344-45; 1462.
2004 – « Entrepôt de l’Empire : Le magasin général rural au milieu du XIXe siècle, » dans G. Beaur, Christian Dessureault et Joseph Goy ed., Familles, terre et marchés, logiques économiques et stratégies dans les milieux ruraux (XVIIe-XXe ), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 33-46.
2003 – « Y-eut-il une ‘révolution industrieuse’ en Amérique du nord? » dans Famille et marché, XVIe-XXe siècles, Christian Dessureault, John A.Dickinson et Joseph Goy, eds, Montreal, Septentrion, 2003, 33-48.
2003 –«Solder les comptes: les sources de crédits dans les magasins généraux ruraux de l’est canadien au milieu du XIXe siècle» Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 13, 2003, 23-48.
2002 – avec J. Rygiel et Elizabeth Turcotte (Carleton University), “The Homespun paradox: Market-oriented production of cloth in Eastern Canada in the nineteenth century" Agricultural History (U.S). 76 (Winter 2002), 28-57.
Women’s history
Books
With Robert Beachy (Goucher College, Maryland), et Alastair Owens, (Queen Mary, London), Women, business and finance in nineteenth century Europe, rethinking separate spheres. (Oxford, Berg press. 2006.)
Béatrice Craig, Robert Beachy and Alastair Owen, “Introduction", 1-19. Béatrice Craig: “Where have all the business women gone? Images and realities in the life of nineteenth century middle class women in northern France", ch.4, 52-66.
Articles and book chapters
2009 – “When Generation Trumped Sex: Gender Norms and The Transmission of Family Business In Nineteenth Century Northern France.” In Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, Llorenc Ferrer-Alos, Jan Kok, Marco Van Leeuwen, and Margarida Durães (eds). The Transmission of well-being. Gendered Marriage Strategies and Inheritance Systems in Europe (17th-20th Centuries). (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009), 183-200.
2007 – “Catholic and Malthusian: The Entrepreneurs of Tourcoing in the Nineteenth Century" in "Geburtenbeschränkung in historischer Perspektive,” special issue of Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, edited by Rolf Gehrmann. 32, 2, 160-186.
2002 – «Patrons mauvais genre: Femmeset entreprises à Tourcoing au XIXe siècle.» Histoire sociale-Sociale History, 34, 331-354. 2002 –“Lending women, borrowing women: Middle class women, investments and credit in northern France in the nineteenth century,”in Women and credit: Researching the Past, Refiguring the Future, ed. By Beverly Lemire, Ruth Pearson and Gail Campbell (Oxford, Berg press, 2002), 51-72.
2001 – “Petites bourgeoises or penny capitalists? Female retailers in Northern France in the Nineteenth century.” Enterprise and Society, #2, (June 2001), 198-224.
Awards and achievements
Clio Prize, Atlantic Canada 2010 for the best book in the history of the Atlantic region awarded by the Canadian historical association
Sir John A. Macdonald Prize (2010) forthe best book in Canadian historyawarded by the Canadian historical association.
Prix Lionel-Groulx -Fondation Yves Saint-Germain 2010, pour le meilleur livre sur l’histoire de l’Amérique française, décérné par l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française.
For Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2009.
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Prix Hilda Neatby 1999, Societe historique du Canada pour «Salaires, niveaux de vie et travail féminin dans l’arrondissement de Lille au XIXe siècle.» Annales canadiennes d’histoire, XXXIII (août 1998), 215-248.
Honorary doctorate, granted by the University of Maine (Fort Kent Campus) (1995)
Citation from the Maine State Legislature, for work done on the history of the St John Valley (1995)
