About Peter C. Perdue
Born 1949. Peter C. Perdue is an American historian, university teacher and sinologist.
Publications
Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 A.D. (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1987)
China Marches West. The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005)
Winner of the 2007 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
Imperial Formations (Co-editor with Ann Laura Stoler and Carole McGranahan, 2007)
Shared Histories of Modernity: China, India and the Ottoman Empire (Co-editor with Huricihan Islamoglu, 2009).
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American historian
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Peter C. Perdue was born on 21 April 1949.
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Peter C. Perdue is a historian, university teacher and sinologist.
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Peter C. Perdue is American.
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