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Douglas Peers

Douglas Peers

Canadian historian

Douglas M. Peers FRHS is a Canadian historian who specializes in the history of the British Empire.[1] He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 1993[2][3] and Dean of Arts at the University of Waterloo, 2011-2018.[4]

Selected publications

Edited

  • Warfare and Empire. An Expanding World: the European Impact on World History, 1450-1800 series. Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, and Variorum, London, 1997.
  • J.S. Mill’s Encounter with India. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1999. (With Martin Moir and Lynn Zastoupil)
  • Negotiating India in the Nineteenth Century Media. Macmillan, London, 2000. (With David Finkelstein)
  • India and the British Empire. The Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012. (With Nandini Gooptu)[5]

Authored

  • Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in India, 1819-1835. I.B. Tauris, London, 1995.[6][7][8]
  • India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885. Longman, London, 2006.

References

  1. [1]
    "Douglas Peers".
  2. [2]
    "Doug Peers". 3 October 2023.
  3. [3]
    "Douglas M. Peers".
  4. [4]
    "Douglas Peers". 3 August 2012.
  5. [5]
    Wainwright, A. (2014). Douglas M. Peers and Nandini Gooptu, eds. India and the British Empire. Oxford History of the British Empire Companion series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. pp. 388. $65.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies, 53(2), 550-551.
  6. [6]
    Roy, Kaushik (1996). "Book Reviews : DOUGLAS M. PEERS, Between Mars and Mammon, Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in India, 1819-1835, Tauris Academic Studies, I.B. Tauris Publishers, London, New York, 1995, xxi + 289 pp., £39.50". The Indian Economic & Social History Review. 33 (4): 488–490. doi:10.1177/001946469603300411. S2CID 144720340.
  7. [7]
    Fisher, Michael H. (1997). "British and Indian Interactions before the British Raj in India, 1730s-1857". Journal of British Studies. 36 (3): 363–370. doi:10.1086/386141. JSTOR 175793. S2CID 249899099.
  8. [8]
    Crowell, Lorenzo M. (1996). "Reviewed work: Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in India, 1819-1835, Douglas M. Peers". Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies. 28 (4): 743–745. doi:10.2307/4052088. JSTOR 4052088.


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