Peter Silver

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Name Peter Silver Role Historian		Awards Bancroft Prize


Books Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America, Structural Engineering for Architects: A Handbook Education Yale University, Harvard College

Peter Silver on Motives in the French and Indian War

Peter Silver (born New Haven, Connecticut) is an early American historian.

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. He teaches at Rutgers University.

He lives with his wife and daughter, spending holidays near Southwest Harbor, Maine.

1998-1999 Whiting Fellowship

2008 Bancroft Prize, Our Savage Neighbors

2008 Mark Lynton History Prize, Our Savage Neighbors

Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-06248-9.

A Rotten Colossus: Spanish and British America in the War of Jenkins's Ear.

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