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P. J. Marshall
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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.WEB,weblink Marshall, Prof. Peter James, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 3 July 2009, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090821085346weblink">weblink 21 August 2009,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.WEB,weblink The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Taylor & Francis Group, 4 March 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100301222343weblink">weblink 1 March 2010, 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
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.BOOK, The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion, 1700â1765, P. J., Marshall, The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. 2, The Eighteenth Century, P. J., Marshall, 1998, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 487â507, 978-0-19820-562-3,Selected publications
- 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 â 1828, (Cambridge, 1988)
- The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. II, The Eighteenth Century, (Oxford, 1998) (Contributor & Editor)BOOK,weblink Historiography, 14 May 2004, 9780199246809, 4 March 2015, Louis, William Roger, Low, Alaine M., Winks, Robin W., Marshall, Peter James,
- 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 â 1783, (Oxford, 2005)WEB,weblink Catalogue: The 18th Century, Oxford University Press, 3 July 2009, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111107133935weblink">weblink 7 November 2011,
- Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery (Oxford, 2019)
Awards
- Doctor of Literature honoris causa by the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, December 2008WEB,weblink Honorary degrees, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 15 December 2012, 4 March 2015,
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Fellow of the British Academy
Legacy
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,WEB,weblink Honorary fellows, Institute of Historical Research, 15 December 2017, is awarded annually to a doctoral student in history.WEB,weblink Awards, Institute of Historical Research, 3 July 2009, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070930073936weblink">weblink 30 September 2007,Bibliography
- 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 â 1783, (Oxford, 2005), pp. 398
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