Marshall, Peter James, b 1933, Professor of History

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Marshall, Peter James, b 1933, Professor of History

1933-

Born 1933; educated Wellington College, Berkshire, 1947-1952, and Wadham College, Oxford University, 1954-1957; served with the King's African Rifles in Kenya, 1953-1954; successively Assistant Lecturer, 1959-1962, Lecturer, 1962-1970, Reader, 1970-1978, and Professor, 1978-1980, in the History Department, King's College London; Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King's College London, 1980-1993; Member of the History Working Group, National Curriculum, 1989-1990; Vice President, Royal Historical Society, 1987-1991; Editor, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History , 1975-1981; Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, King's College London, 1993.

Publications: Problems of Empire: Britain and India, 1757-1813 (George Allen and Unwin, London, 1968); editor of The British discovery of Hinduism in the eighteenth century (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge); The impeachment of Warren Hastings (Oxford University Press, London, 1965); The East India Company (Routledge, London, 1968); editor of The Oxford history of the British Empire (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998); Imperial Britain (University of London, London, [1994]); editor of The Cambridge illustrated history of the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996); 'A free though conquering people': Britian and Asia in the eighteenth century. An inaugural lecture in the Rhodes Chair of Imperial History, delivered at King's College London (London, 1981); Trade and conquest: studies on the rise of British dominance in India (Variorum, Aldershot, 1993); India and Indonesia during the Ancien Regime (Brill, Leiden, 1989); Oriental studies (Clarendon, Oxford, 1986); Bengal: the British bridgehead (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987); The great map of mankind. British perceptions of the world in the age of enlightenment with Glyndwr Williams (Dent, London, 1982); The writings and speeches of Edmund Burke Vol. V (Clarendon, Oxford, 1981); Text of the talk given on 21 October 1982 by Professor P. J. Marshall on Thomas Hyde: stupor mundi (Hakluyt Society, London, [1983]).

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