THIS is the CV presented at https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-peebles-892871b/… with chronology in reverse order
- Retired ….. Independent historian Sep 2008 – Present · 15 yrs 8 mosSep 2008 – Present · 15 yrs….. 8 Roeland Park, Kansas
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- 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
- Activities and societies: Daily Californian, Pelican, Intramural sports
- 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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