Professor emeritus of History at McGill University. Specializing in the early history of Canada in the context of the Americas and the Atlantic World, Allan Greer has published, among other works, Peasant, Lord and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes, 1740 1840; The Patriots and the People: The Rebellion of 1837 in Rural Lower Canada; Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits; Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Greer is currently writing a 15,000 year "deep history" of Canada.