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Peter Marshall
CBE FRHistS FBA
Peter Marshall CBE FRHistS FBA
Born	1933 (age 90–91); Calcutta, Bengal Presidency
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Alma mater	Wellington College, Berkshire; Wadham College, Oxford;
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Discipline	History

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Peter James Marshall CBE FRHistS FBA (born 1933) is a British historian known for his work on the British Empire, particularly the activities of British East India Company servants in 18th-century Bengal,^[1] and also the history of British involvement in North America during the same period.^[2] He is not to be confused with his contemporary, the other P. J. Marshall, who chronicled the history of public transport in the British Isles.

Early life and education[edit]

He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and, following national service with the 7th (Kenya) Battalion, King's African Rifles, he took a first class honours degree in history at Wadham College, Oxford, from where he received a D.Phil. in 1962.^[3]

Academic career and professional activities[edit]

Between 1959 and 1993, he taught in the history department at King's College London. He was appointed Rhodes Professor of Imperial History in 1980, in which post he remained until his retirement.

Between 1965 and 1978, he served as a Member of the Editorial Committee for The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, and between 1975 and 1981 he was Editor of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.^[4] He sat on the History Working Group for National Curriculum in England in 1989 and 1990. In 1987 he was appointed Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society, serving as President between 1997 and 2001. He has been a notable benefactor to the Society.

He is an Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London, where he continues to lecture.

British in India[edit]

Marshall presents a revisionist interpretation, rejecting the view that the prosperity of Mughal Bengal gave way to poverty and anarchy in the colonial period. He instead argues that the British takeover did not mark any sharp break with the past. After 1765, British control was delegated largely through regional rulers and was sustained by a generally prosperous economy for the rest of the 18th century. Marshall also notes that the British raised revenue through local tax administrators and kept the old Mughal rates of taxation. His interpretation of colonial Bengal, at least until c. 1820, is one in which the British were not in full control, but instead were actors in what was primarily an Indian play, and in which their ability to keep power depended upon excellent co-operation with Indian elites. Marshall admits that much of his interpretation is still contested by many historians.^[5]

Selected publications[edit]

The Impeachment of Warren Hastings, (Oxford, 1965)
The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, vol. V, (Cambridge, 1965) (Assistant Editor)
The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, vol. VII, (Cambridge, 1968) (Assistant Editor)
East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century, (Oxford, 1976)
The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, vol. X, (Cambridge, 1978) (Assistant Editor)
The Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment, (London, 1982) (Co-editor with G. Williams)
The New Cambridge History of India, II, 2, Bengal: the British Bridgehead: Eastern India, 1740 – 1828, (Cambridge, 1988)
The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. II, The Eighteenth Century, (Oxford, 1998) (Contributor & Editor)^[6]
A Free Though Conquering People': Eighteenth-century Britain and its Empire, (Aldershot, 2003)
The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America c. 1750 – 1783, (Oxford, 2005)^[7]
Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery (Oxford, 2019)

Awards[edit]

Doctor of Literature honoris causa by the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, December 2008^[8]
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Fellow of the British Academy

Legacy[edit]

A Junior Research Fellowship bearing his name, and jointly administered by the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London, where he is an honorary Fellow,^[9] is awarded annually to a doctoral student in history.^[10]

Bibliography[edit]

Marshall, P. J., East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century, (Oxford, 1976), pp. 284
Marshall, P. J.,The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America c. 1750 – 1783, (Oxford, 2005), pp. 398

References[edit]

^ Marshall, P. J. (1976). East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19821-566-0.
^ Marshall, P. J. (2005). The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America c. 1750–1783. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19927-895-4.
^ "Marshall, Prof. Peter James". School of Advanced Study, University of London. Archived from the original on 21 August 2009. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
^ "The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History". Taylor & Francis Group. Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
^ Marshall, P. J. (1998). "The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion, 1700–1765". In Marshall, P. J. (ed.). The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. 2, The Eighteenth Century. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 487–507. ISBN 978-0-19820-562-3.
^ Louis, William Roger; Low, Alaine M.; Winks, Robin W.; Marshall, Peter James (14 May 2004). Historiography. ISBN 9780199246809. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
^ "Catalogue: The 18th Century". Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 7 November 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
^ "Honorary degrees". School of Advanced Study, University of London. 15 December 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
^ "Honorary fellows". Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
^ "Awards". Institute of Historical Research. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 3 July 2009.

External links[edit]

"Professor Peter James Marshall CBE, FBA". University of Bristol. 18 July 2008.
"Professor Peter James Marshall". King's College London.
"Books by Peter James Marshall". Goodreads.

Academic offices
Preceded by Rees Davies	President of the Royal Historical Society 1997–2001	Succeeded by Janet Nelson

[1] Marshall, P. J. (1976). East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19821-566-0.

[2] Marshall, P. J. (2005). The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America c. 1750–1783. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19927-895-4.

[3] "Marshall, Prof. Peter James". School of Advanced Study, University of London. Archived from the original on 21 August 2009. Retrieved 3 July 2009.

[4] "The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History". Taylor & Francis Group. Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. Retrieved 4 March 2015.

[5] Marshall, P. J. (1998). "The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion, 1700–1765". In Marshall, P. J. (ed.). The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. 2, The Eighteenth Century. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 487–507. ISBN 978-0-19820-562-3.

[6] Louis, William Roger; Low, Alaine M.; Winks, Robin W.; Marshall, Peter James (14 May 2004). Historiography. ISBN 9780199246809. Retrieved 4 March 2015.

[7] "Catalogue: The 18th Century". Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 7 November 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2009.

[8] "Honorary degrees". School of Advanced Study, University of London. 15 December 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2015.

[9] "Honorary fellows". Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 15 December 2017.

[10] "Awards". Institute of Historical Research. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 3 July 2009.

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-'''Peter James Marshall''' [[CBE]], [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (born [[Calcutta]], 1933) is a British historian known for his work on the [[British empire]], particularly the activities of [[British East India Company]] servants in 18th-century Bengal,<ref>Marshall, P. J.,''East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century'', (Oxford, 1976)</ref> and also the history of British involvement in North America during the same period.<ref>Marshall, P. J., ''The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America c. 1750 - 1783'', (Oxford, 2005)</ref>
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+'''Peter James Marshall''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRHistS|FBA}} (born 1933) is a British historian known for his work on the [[British Empire]], particularly the activities of [[British East India Company]] servants in 18th-century Bengal,<ref>{{cite book |title=East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century |first=P. J. |last=Marshall |year=1976 |location=Oxford, UK |publisher=[[Clarendon Press]] |isbn=978-0-19821-566-0}}</ref> and also the history of British involvement in North America during the same period.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America c. 1750–1783 |first=P. J. |last=Marshall |year=2005 |location=Oxford, UK |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19927-895-4}}</ref> He is not to be confused with his contemporary, the other P. J. Marshall, who chronicled the history of public transport in the British Isles.
 ==Early life and education==
+He was educated at [[Wellington College, Berkshire]], and, following national service with the 7th (Kenya) Battalion, [[King's African Rifles]], he took a first class honours degree in history at [[Wadham College, Oxford]], from where he received a D.Phil. in 1962.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sas.ac.uk/543.html |title=Marshall, Prof. Peter James |website=[[School of Advanced Study]], [[University of London]] |access-date=3 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821085346/http://www.sas.ac.uk/543.html |archive-date=21 August 2009}}</ref>
-He was educated at [[Wellington College, Berkshire]], and, following national service with the 7th (Kenya) Battalion, [[King's African Rifles]], he took a first class honours degree in history at [[Wadham College, Oxford]], from where he received a D.Phil in 1962.<ref>http://www.sas.ac.uk/543.html</ref>
 ==Academic career and professional activities==
+Between 1959 and 1993, he taught in the history department at [[King's College London]]. He was appointed [[Rhodes Professor of Imperial History]] in 1980, in which post he remained until his retirement.
+Between 1965 and 1978, he served as a Member of the Editorial Committee for ''The Correspondence of Edmund Burke'', and between 1975 and 1981 he was Editor of ''[[The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03086534.asp |title=The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |website=Taylor & Francis Group |access-date=4 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301222343/http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03086534.asp |archive-date=1 March 2010}}</ref> He sat on the History Working Group for National Curriculum in England in 1989 and 1990. In 1987 he was appointed Vice-President of the [[Royal Historical Society]], serving as President between 1997 and 2001. He has been a notable benefactor to the Society.
+He is an Emeritus [[Rhodes Professor of Imperial History]] at [[King's College London]], where he continues to lecture.
-Between 1959 and 1993, he taught in the history department at [[King's College London]] and was appointed [[Rhodes Professor of Imperial History]] in 1980, in which post he remained until his retirement. Between 1965 and 1978, he served as a Member of the Editorial Committee for ''The Correspondence of Edmund Burke'', and between 1975 and 1981 he was Editor of ''The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History''.[http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03086534.asp] He sat on the History Working Group for National Curriculum in England in 1989 and 1990. In 1987 he was appointed Vice President of the [[Royal Historical Society]], serving as President between 1997 and 2001. A Junior Research Fellowship bearing his name, and jointly administered by the Royal Historical Society and the [[Institute of Historical Research]] at the University of London, where he is an Honorary Fellow,[http://www.history.ac.uk/awards/fellowships/honarary/current] is awarded annually to a doctoral student in history.<ref>http://www.history.ac.uk/awards/</ref> In December 2008, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature ''honoris causa'' by the [[School of Advanced Study]] at the University of London.<ref>http://www.sas.ac.uk/honorarydegrees.html</ref>  He is an Emeritus [[Rhodes Professor of Imperial History]] at [[King's College London]], where he continues to lecture.
 ==British in India==
+Marshall presents a revisionist interpretation, rejecting the view that the prosperity of Mughal Bengal gave way to poverty and anarchy in the colonial period. He instead argues that the British takeover did not mark any sharp break with the past. After 1765, British control was delegated largely through regional rulers and was sustained by a generally prosperous economy for the rest of the 18th century. Marshall also notes that the British raised revenue through local tax administrators and kept the old Mughal rates of taxation. His interpretation of colonial Bengal, at least until c. 1820, is one in which the British were not in full control, but instead were actors in what was primarily an Indian play, and in which their ability to keep power depended upon excellent co-operation with Indian elites. Marshall admits that much of his interpretation is still contested by many historians.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion, 1700–1765 |first=P. J. |last=Marshall |title=[[The Oxford History of the British Empire]]: Vol. 2, The Eighteenth Century |editor-first=P. J. |editor-last=Marshall |year=1998 |location=Oxford, UK |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordhistoryofb00loui/page/487 487–507] |isbn=978-0-19820-562-3 }}</ref>
-Rejecting the Indian nationalist account of the British as alien aggressors, seizing power by brute force and impoverishing all of India, Marshall argues that the British were not in full control but instead were players in what was primarily an Indian play and in which their rise to power depended upon excellent cooperation with Indian elites. Marshall admits that much of his interpretation is still rejected by many historians.<ref>P.J. Marshall, "The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion, 1700-1765," in ''The Oxford History of the British Empire: vol. 2, The Eighteenth Century" ed. by P. J. Marshall, (1998), pp 487-507</ref> Marshall argues that recent scholarship has reinterpreted the view that the prosperity of the formerly benign Mughal rule gave way to poverty and anarchy. Marshall argues the British takeover did not make any sharp break with the past. The British largely delegated control to regional Mughal rulers and sustained a generally prosperous economy for the rest of the 18th century. Marshall notes the British went into partnership with Indian bankers and raised revenue through local tax administrators and kept the old Mughal rates of taxation.<ref>Marshall, "The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion, 1700-1765"</ref>
 ==Selected publications==
 *''The Impeachment of Warren Hastings'', (Oxford, 1965)
 *''The Correspondence of Edmund Burke'', vol. V, (Cambridge, 1965) (Assistant Editor)
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 *''The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, vol. X'', (Cambridge, 1978) (Assistant Editor)
 *''The Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment'', (London, 1982) (Co-editor with G. Williams)
-*''The New Cambridge History of India'', II, 2, ''Bengal: the British Bridgehead: Eastern India, 1740 - 1828'', (Cambridge, 1988)
+*''[[The New Cambridge History of India]]'', II, 2, ''Bengal: the British Bridgehead: Eastern India, 1740 – 1828'', (Cambridge, 1988)
-*''The Oxford History of the British Empire'', vol. II, ''The Eighteenth Century'', (Oxford, 1998) (Contributor and Editor)[http://books.google.com/books?id=IRB52ijcgMMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Peter+James+Marshall%22&as_brr=0]
+*''[[The Oxford History of the British Empire]]'', vol. II, ''The Eighteenth Century'', (Oxford, 1998) (Contributor & Editor)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IRB52ijcgMMC&q=%22Peter+James+Marshall%22 |title=Historiography |date=14 May 2004 |isbn=9780199246809 |access-date=4 March 2015|last1=Louis |first1=William Roger |last2=Low |first2=Alaine M. |last3=Winks |first3=Robin W. |last4=Marshall |first4=Peter James }}</ref>
-*'''A Free Though Conquering People': Eighteenth-century Britain and its Empire'', (Aldershot, 2003)
+*''A Free Though Conquering People': Eighteenth-century Britain and its Empire'', (Aldershot, 2003)
-*''The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America c. 1750 - 1783'', (Oxford, 2005)<ref>http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/British/18thC/?view=usa&ci=9780199278954&view=usa</ref>
+*''The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America c. 1750 – 1783'', (Oxford, 2005)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/British/18thC/?view=usa&ci=9780199278954&view=usa |title=Catalogue: The 18th Century |website=Oxford University Press |access-date=3 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111107133935/http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/British/18thC/?view=usa |archive-date=7 November 2011}}</ref>
+*''Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery'' (Oxford, 2019)
-==Footnotes==
+==Awards==
+*Doctor of Literature ''honoris causa'' by the [[School of Advanced Study]] at the University of London, December 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sas.ac.uk/honorarydegrees.html |title=Honorary degrees |website=School of Advanced Study, University of London |date=15 December 2012 |access-date=4 March 2015}}</ref>
+*[[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]
+*[[Fellow of the British Academy]]
+==Legacy==
-# Marshall, P. J., ''East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century'', (Oxford, 1976), pp.&nbsp;284
+A [[Junior Research Fellowships|Junior Research Fellowship]] bearing his name, and jointly administered by the Royal Historical Society and the [[Institute of Historical Research]] at the University of London, where he is an honorary Fellow,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/current/honorary-fellows |title=Honorary fellows |website=Institute of Historical Research |access-date=15 December 2017}}</ref> is awarded annually to a doctoral student in history.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.ac.uk/awards/ |title=Awards |website=Institute of Historical Research |access-date=3 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930073936/http://www.history.ac.uk/awards/ |archive-date=30 September 2007}}</ref>
-# Marshall, P. J.,''The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America c. 1750 - 1783'', (Oxford, 2005), pp.&nbsp;398
-# http://www.sas.ac.uk/543.html
+==Bibliography==
-# http://www.sas.ac.uk/honorarydegrees.html
+*Marshall, P. J., ''East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century'', (Oxford, 1976), pp.&nbsp;284
-# http://www.history.ac.uk/awards/
+*Marshall, P. J.,''The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America c. 1750 – 1783'', (Oxford, 2005), pp.&nbsp;398
-# http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/British/18thC/?view=usa&ci=9780199278954&view=usa
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
+* {{cite web |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-degrees/hondeg08/marshall.html |title=Professor Peter James Marshall CBE, FBA |website=University of Bristol |date=18 July 2008}}
-*[http://www.sas.ac.uk/543.html Short Biography]
-*[http://wwwcache1.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/collect/10ma70-1.html King's College London Archives]
+* {{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/people/staff/emeritus/marshall.aspx |title=Professor Peter James Marshall |website=King's College London}}
+* {{cite web |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/6859411.Peter_James_Marshall |title=Books by Peter James Marshall |website=Goodreads}}
-*[http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/British/18thC/?view=usa&ci=9780199278954&view=usa Recent Publications]
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