Douglas Peers

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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

↑ "Douglas Peers".
↑ "Doug Peers". 3 October 2023.
↑ "Douglas M. Peers".
↑ "Douglas Peers". 3 August 2012.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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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[1] "Douglas Peers".

[2] "Doug Peers". 3 October 2023.

[3] "Douglas M. Peers".

[4] "Douglas Peers". 3 August 2012.

[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] 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] 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] 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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