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Name
  
Peter Silver

Role
  
Historian

Awards
  
Bancroft Prize


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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.

Contents

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. He teaches at Rutgers University.

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

Awards

  • 1998-1999 Whiting Fellowship
  • 2001 John Addison Porter Prize
  • 2008 Bancroft Prize, Our Savage Neighbors
  • 2008 Mark Lynton History Prize, Our Savage Neighbors
  • Works

  • 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.
  • References

    Peter Silver Wikipedia