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The Crimean War in Imperial Context, 1854–1856 by Peers, Douglas M

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Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture by Nasser Mufti (review) by Peers, Douglas M

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Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture by Peers, Douglas M.

“…[...]civil wars have increasingly come to be seen by the World Bank and other Western institutions as crises peculiar to the developing nations in the Global…”
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Kaushik Roy, Brown Warriors of the Raj Recruitment and the Mechanics of Command in the Second Army, 1859–1913 (New Delhi: Manohar), 2008, pp. 350 by Peers, Douglas M.

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Colonial knowledge and the military in India, 1780-1860 by Peers, Douglas M.

“…Military officers and surgeons played a critical role in the collection, analysis and dissemination of knowledge in colonial India. Yet the little attention to…”
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A Military History of Afghanistan: From the Great Game to the Global War on Terror by Ali Ahmad Jalali (review) by Peers, Douglas M

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Defending British India against Napoleon: The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto, 1807–1813, by Amita Das, ed. and updated by Aditya Das by Peers, Douglas M

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Is Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again?: The Revival of Imperial History and the "Oxford History of the British Empire" by Peers, Douglas M.

“…In 1984 the prognosis for imperial history was decidedly bleak; fifteen years later interest in the British empire was reaching new heights, as witnessed in…”
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The Crimean War in Imperial Context, 1854–1856 by Andrew C. Rath, and: Engines for Empire: The Victorian army and its use of railways by Edward M. Spiers (review) by Peers, Douglas M

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Privates off Parade: Regimenting Sexuality in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Empire by Peers, Douglas M.

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‘Those Noble Exemplars of the True Military Tradition’; Constructions of the Indian Army in the Mid-Victorian Press by Peers, Douglas M.

“…This paper is directed first at identifying where and by whom military influences or topics manifested themselves in the periodical pressʼns coverage of India…”
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Soldiers, surgeons and the campaigns to combat sexually transmitted diseases in colonial India, 1805–1860 by Peers, Douglas M

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Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 by Peers, Douglas M.

“…Peers reviews Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 by Thomas R. Metcalf…”
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Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code: The Legacies and Modern Challenges of Criminal Law Reform ed. by Wing-Cheong Chan, Barry Wright, and Stanley Yeo (review) by Peers, Douglas M

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‘The Habitual Nobility of Being’: British Officers and the Social Construction of the Bengal Army in the Early Nineteenth Century by Peers, Douglas M.

“…The ethnocentric and racialist overtones of the Victorian empire have long been acknowledged. Most work in this field has generally centred on the mid to late…”
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Soldiers, Scholars, and the Scottish Enlightenment: Militarism in Early Nineteenth-Century India by Peers, Douglas M.

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War and Public Finance in Early Nineteenth-Century British India: The First Burma War by Peers, Douglas M.

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John Severn. Architects of Empire: The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. 587. $34.95 (cloth) by Peers, Douglas M.

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Between Mars and Mammon; the East India Company and Efforts to Reform its Army, 1796–1832 by Peers, Douglas M.

“…The history of the East India Company's rule of India is marked by sporadic outbursts of civil-military conflict. It was not unknown in India for European…”
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A Military History of Afghanistan: From the Great Game to the Global War on Terror by Peers, Douglas M.

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