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Peter Way

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Peter Way
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Academic background
Alma materTrent University
Queen's University at Kingston
University of Maryland, College Park
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsBowling Green State University
University of Windsor

Peter Way (born 1957) is a Canadian historian of America and the Atlantic world.

Life

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Born in Belleville, Ontario, he graduated from Trent University in 1981, Queen's University with an M.A. in 1983, and University of Maryland, College Park with a Ph.D., in 1991.

Dr. Way taught at the University of Sussex from 1989 to 2001, and Bowling Green State University, while Department Chair, from 2001 to 2006.[1] He then chaired the History Department at the University of Windsor from 2006 to 2011, where he now teaches.[2]

Awards

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Works

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  • "Soldiers of Misfortune: New England Regulars and the Fall of Oswego, 1755–1756", Massachusetts Historical Review, Vol. 3, 2001
  • Peter Way (1993). Common labour: workers and the digging of North American canals, 1780-1860. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-44033-2.
  • Martin Daunton; Rick Halpern, eds. (February 1, 1999). "The Cutting Edge of Culture: British Soldiers Encounter Native Americans in the French and Indian War". Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1699-8.

Criticism

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Current research

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Making War: Common Soldiers and the Forging of Britain’s Atlantic Empire in the Seven Years' War. This study treats soldiers as laborers and the professional army of the time as an essential component to the fiscal-military state that protected merchant capital in the imperial environment. The book examines the British state, empire and army in the 18th century, casting warfare in economic terms as an instrument of the primitive accumulation of capital. The book is contracted to University of Pennsylvania Press.

References

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  1. ^ "BGSU:Peter Way to explore gender's role". www.bgsu.edu. Archived from the original on 2006-09-12.
  2. ^ "Peter Way | History". www.uwindsor.ca. Archived from the original on 2009-11-01.
  3. ^ "Prize Winning Articles". WMQ. OIEAHC. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
  4. ^ "Department of History".