Professor Douglas M. Peers

Douglas M. Peers is Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is the author of Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in Early-Nineteenth Century India (1995) and India Under Colonial Rule, 1700-1885 (2006). He is also the co-editor, along with Nandini Gooptu, of India and the British Empire (2012), a companion volume in the Oxford History of the British Empire series. Douglas is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and past president of the...See more

Douglas M. Peers is Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is the author of Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in Early-Nineteenth Century India (1995) and India Under Colonial Rule, 1700-1885 (2006). He is also the co-editor, along with Nandini Gooptu, of India and the British Empire (2012), a companion volume in the Oxford History of the British Empire series. Douglas is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and past president of the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies. See less