Professor Patrick Peebles& His Work on Sri Lanka-by Michael Roberts

Professor Patrick Peebles& His Work on Sri Lanka-by Michael Roberts

THIS is the CV presented at https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-peebles-892871b/… with chronology in reverse order

Source:Thuppahis

• Retired ….. Independent historian Sep 2008 – Present · 15 yrs 8 mosSep 2008 – Present · 15 yrs….. 8 Roeland Park, Kansas

• • I continue to do research and publish, and Mary and I travel widely. (Scotland, Turkey, Munich, California, and Colorado in 2015).I continue to do research and publish, and Mary and I travel widely. (Scotland, Turkey, Munich, California, and Colorado in 2015).

PROFESSOR EMERITUS …. UMKCUMKCSEP 1974 – SEP 2008 · 34 YRS 1 MOSEP 1974 – SEP 2008 · 34 YRS 1 MO ………………….. PROFESSOR OF HISTORY SPECIALIZING IN SRI LANKA, ASIA, WORLD AND METHODOLOGY 

EDUCATION

• University of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago, MA, Ph.D, History 1966 – 1973

• University of California, Berkeley BA, History 1964 – 19661964 – 1966

• Activities and societies: Daily Californian, Pelican, Intramural sports

Research …..

• Endorsed by JOHN PAULLING and 1 other who is highly skilled at thisEndorsed by JOHN PAULLING and 1 other who is highly skilled at this

Editing: ….

• Lal Kumara Wakkumbura and 1 connection have given endorsements for this skill

• Historical Dictionary of Sri Lanka. 2015 Rowman & Littlefield · Oct 29, 2015Rowman & Littlefield · Oct 29, 2015 …. The publishers wanted much more contemporary information than I intended. If I do a second edition, it will have more 19th and 20th century information.

• History of Sri Lanka (Greenwood Publishing Group (ABC-CLIO) · Jan 1, 2006 Greenwood Publishing Group (ABC-CLIO) · Jan 1, 2006 …… Most of this was written during the period of the cease-fire agreement and I was unduly optimistic about the future. The text up to that point stands up well, I believe.
• “The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Captain Robert Knox,”  Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities · Dec 1, 2004″ …… I am still convinced that Knox was the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, although there is no convincing evidence. See Katherine Frank, Crusoe (2012). I still intend to publish a history of his later career as a captain for the East India Company.I am still convinced that Knox was the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, although there is no convincing evidence. See Katherine Frank, Crusoe (2012). I still intend to publish a history of his later career as a captain for the East India Company.
• Plantation Tamils of Ceylon, 2001 University of Leicester Press · Jan 1, 2001
• Social Change in Nineteenth Century Ceylon  Navrang · Jan 1, 1995
• Classics of Eastern Thought, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich · Jan 1, 1991
• “Colonization and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka,” Journal of Asian Studies · Jan 1, 1990 [SEE
• Sri Lanka: A Handbook of Historical Statistics, K. Hall · Jan 1, 1982.

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