Peter Perdue
Peter Perdue (* 1949 ) is an American historian and university professor.
After finishing school, Perdue studied history. He obtained BA , MA and Ph.D. at Harvard University . Perdue is TT and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations and Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Perdue wrote numerous articles and wrote the book Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 AD in 1987 and the book China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia in 2005 . He is considered an expert on Chinese and Japanese history.
He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007 .
Fonts
- Exhausting the Earth. State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 (= Harvard East Asian Monographs. Vol. 130). Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA et al. 1987, ISBN 0-674-27504-7 .
- China marches west. The Qing conquest of Central Eurasia. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA et al. 2005, ISBN 0-674-01684-X .
Awards and honors
- 1988: Edgerton Award
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perdue, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Perdue, Peter C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |