P. J. Marshall

Peter Marshall
Born1933 (age 90–91)
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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.

  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.