Douglas Peers

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

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)

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