Peter Silver
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Life
He was raised in Richmond, Indiana. He graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and from Yale University, with an MA and Ph.D. in 2001. He taught at Princeton University, where he held the Richard Allen Lester University Preceptorship.[1] He teaches at Rutgers University.[2][3]
He lives with his wife and daughter, spending holidays near Southwest Harbor, Maine.[4]
Awards
- 1998-1999 Whiting Fellowship
- 2001 John Addison Porter Prize
- 2008 Bancroft Prize, Our Savage Neighbors
- 2008 Mark Lynton History Prize, Our Savage Neighbors[5]
Works
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- A Rotten Colossus: Spanish and British America in the War of Jenkins's Ear.
References
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External links
- "Author's website"
- "The Older South?", Reviews in American History, Volume 31, Number 2, June 2003
- "Book Reviews: Our Savage Neighbors", Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 2008Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American male writers
- Harvard College alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Princeton University faculty
- Rutgers University faculty
- Living people
- People from Mount Desert Island
- Writers from Richmond, Indiana
- Bancroft Prize winners
- American male non-fiction writers