Derek R. Peterson

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PhD History University of California, Berkeley
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According to Wikipedia, Derek R. Peterson is an American historian specializing in the cultural history of East Africa. He is currently a professor of history and African studies at the University of Michigan. He was the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant" in 2017.

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Creative writing : translation, bookkeeping, and the work of imagination in colonial Kenya (2004) (123)
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c.1935-1972 (2012) (51)
Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa (2009) (50)
Introduction: New Directions in the History of Missionsin Africa (1999) (49)
The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History (2002) (48)
Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic (2010) (44)
Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity, Talal Asad. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA (2003), , 269 pp., $49.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 8047 4767 9, $19.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 8047 4768 7 (2004) (40)
Morality Plays: Marriage, Church Courts, and Colonial Agency in Central Tanganyika, ca. 1876–1928 (2006) (31)
The politics of heritage in Africa: economies, histories, and infrastructures (2015) (31)
The Risks of Knowledge: Investigations into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990 (review) (2006) (29)
Rethinking the state in Idi Amin's Uganda: the politics of exhortation (2013) (27)
Introduction: Homespun Historiography and the Academic Profession (2009) (27)
Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa: Southern Gabon, ca. 1850-1940 (review) (2003) (26)
African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century (2016) (26)
WORDY WOMEN: GENDER TROUBLE AND THE ORAL POLITICS OF THE EAST AFRICAN REVIVAL IN NORTHERN GIKUYULAND (2001) (25)
Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization (2010) (24)
THE INTELLECTUAL LIVES OF MAU MAU DETAINEES* (2008) (24)
Be Like Firm Soldiers to Develop the Country: Political Imagination and the Geography of Gikuyuland (2004) (23)
Making the Chikunda: Military Slavery and Ethnicity in Southern Africa (2003) (19)
Translating the word : Dialogism and debate in two Gikuyu dictionaries (1999) (18)
Casting Characters: Autobiography and Political Imagination in Central Kenya (2006) (16)
Introduction: Heritage management in Colonial and contemporary Africa (2015) (16)
The politics of the page: cutting and pasting in South African and African-American newspapers (2019) (13)
The life of Charles Muhoro Kareri (2003) (11)
Writing for Kenya: The Life and Works of Henry Muoria (2009) (11)
A history of the heritage economy in Yoweri Museveni’s Uganda (2016) (10)
The Politics of Transcendence in Colonial Uganda (2016) (10)
Print culture in colonial Africa (2016) (10)
Colonizing Language? Missionaries and Gikuyu Dictionaries, 1904 and 1914 (1997) (10)
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: Introduction (2012) (8)
Recasting the Past (2009) (7)
Violence and Political Advocacy in the Lost Counties, Western Uganda, 1930-64 * (2015) (5)
Uganda’s History from the Margins (2013) (4)
The work of time in Western Uganda (2012) (4)
The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (2019) (4)
Revivalism and dissent in colonial East Africa (2012) (4)
Writing Gikuyu Christian literacy and ethnic debate in northern central Kenya, 1908-1952 (2000) (4)
Introduction: Abolitionism and political thought in britain and east Africa (2010) (3)
The Politics of Archives in Uganda (2021) (2)
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: Maps (2012) (2)
Conversion and the alignments of colonial culture (2011) (2)
African Christianity. An African story. Edited by Ogbu U. Kalu. (Perspectives on Christianity. Ser. 5, 3.) Pp. xv+631 incl. 10 maps. Pretoria: University of Pretoria, 2005. R215 (paper). 0 620 33647 1 (2006) (2)
Never be silent: publishing and imperialism in Kenya, 1884-1963, by Shiraz Durrani. London: Vita Books, 2006. xi + 271 pp. ISBN 781869-886059. £21-99. (2007) (2)
Heritage vs Heritage (2015) (2)
Photography, Evidence and Concealed Histories from Idi Amin’s Uganda, 1971–79 (2020) (2)
The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Making History in a Tight Corner (2021) (2)
Collecting obsolete things at the Uganda Museum1 (2021) (1)
Caroline Elkins. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya . New York: Henry Holt, 2005. Pp. 475. $27.50 (cloth). (2005) (1)
Africa's hidden histories: everyday literacy and making the self – Edited by Karin Barber (2008) (1)
Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya. By Bilinda Straight (2008) (1)
CULTURE AND CHRONOLOGY IN AFRICAN HISTORY (2007) (1)
Vernacular Language and Political Imagination (2018) (1)
Archives of Idi Amin (2021) (1)
IN DEFENCE OF BRITISH COLONIALISM AND COUNTER-INSURGENCY Kenya, the Kikuyu and Mau Mau. By DAVID LOVATT SMITH. East Sussex: Mawenzi Books, 2005. Pp. 359. No price given, paperback (ISBN 0-9544713-2-6). (2006) (1)
NONCONFORMITY IN AFRICA'S CULTURAL HISTORY* (2017) (1)
A History of Resistance in Colonial Nyasaland (2017) (1)
Ethnography and Cultural Innovation in Mau Mau Detention Camps: Gakaara wa Wanjau’s Mĩhĩrĩga ya Agĩkũyũ (2014) (1)
African Print Cultures: Newspapers and their Publics in Twentieth-Century Africa (2016) (1)
Government work in Idi Amin's Uganda (2021) (1)
Culture and Customes of Kenya (2003) (1)
THE INSTITUTION OF INCULTURATION (2012) (0)
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: Conclusion (2012) (0)
The Church of women. Gendered encounters between Maasai and missionaries . By Dorothy L. Hodgson. Pp. xix+309 incl. 34 figs. Bloomington–Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. $65 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). 0 253 34568 5; 0 253 21762 8 (2006) (0)
Reviews of Books (1975) (0)
Christianity in Central Tanzania: A Story of African Encounters and Initiatives in Ugogo and Ukaguru, 1876–1933. By Mwita Akiri. Cumbria: Langham, 2020. xxvi + 409 pp. £28.99 paper. (2021) (0)
One. African Political Ethics and the Slave Trade (2010) (0)
Reviews of Books (1980) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Editorial Note On Henry Muoria’s Three Political Pamphlets (2009) (0)
A good part of A Commonwealth of Knowledge rests on the idea of the rise of a colonial nationalism (2008) (0)
Kristin Fjelde Tjelle. Missionary Masculinity, 1870–1930: The Norwegian Missionaries in South-East Africa. (2015) (0)
Religious Movements in Southern Uganda (2012) (0)
WIDOWHOOD IN KENYA'S COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL HISTORY (2008) (0)
Teacher Attitudes Towards Integrating Technology in Literacy Instruction (2017) (0)
THE CONTRIBUTION OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS TO THE CREATION OF KENYA’S EDUCATED CLASS Western Educated Elites in Kenya, 1900–1963: The African-American Factor. By JIM C. HARPER II. New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. viii+193. No price given (ISBN 0-415-97730-4). (2006) (0)
Neil Kodesh. Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2010. Pp. xi, 264. $45.00 (2010) (0)
Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora (2010) (0)
KARIN BARBER, Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I. B. Thomas's ‘Life Story of Me, Sẹgilọla’ and other texts . Leiden and Boston MA: Brill (hb $110 – 978 9 004 22915 0). 2012, 421 pp. (2014) (0)
ALTERNATIVE LITERACIES (2015) (0)
AFRICAN CATHOLIC DECOLONIZATION (2020) (0)
Civil Society in Buganda (2012) (0)
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: Patriotism and Dissent in Western Kenya (2012) (0)
Colonial rule and the rise of African politics (1930–1963) (2020) (0)
Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa (review) (2008) (0)
Thousands of Recently Discovered Photographs Document Life in Uganda During Idi Amin’s Reign (2019) (0)
Chapter Five. The Home Coming Of Our Great Hero Jomo Kenyatta (2009) (0)
Gregory H. Maddox, James L. Giblin, editors. In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania. (Eastern African Studies.) Oxford: James Currey. 2005. Pp. xiv, 337. Cloth $55.00, paper $26.95 (2007) (0)
WILD ANIMALS AND POLITICAL CONFLICT IN COLONIAL KENYA Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya. By EDWARD I. STEINHART. Oxford: James Currey, 2006. Pp. viii+248. £50 (ISBN 0-85255-961-5); £15.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-960-7). (2006) (0)
Review: Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana (2004) (0)
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: The Infrastructure of Cosmopolitanism (2012) (0)
Solid modelling in the Department of Energy (1984) (0)
Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies edited by John M. Janzen, Harold F. Miller & John C. Yoder London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 316. $160.00 (hbk). (2022) (0)
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: Confession, Slander, and Civic Virtue in Mau Mau Detention Camps (2012) (0)
Cultural Conversions: Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missionary Encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia . Edited by Heather Sharkey. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013. xiv + 328 pp. $39.95 cloth (2014) (0)
BOOK REVIEW: Cohen, David William, and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo. THE RISKS OF KNOWLEDGE: INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE DEATH OF THE HON. MINISTER JOHN ROBERT OUKO IN KENYA. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. (2006) (0)
In so doing Harries ' s book charts a path for a more cosmopolitan African history (2013) (0)
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I. B. Thomas’s ‘Life Story of Me, Sẹgilọla’ and other texts by Karin Barber (review) (2014) (0)
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: The Politics of Autobiography in Central Kenya (2012) (0)
Reviews of Books (1984) (0)
Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706–1914 (review) (2009) (0)
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: Preface and Acknowledgments (2012) (0)
Conversion and Court Procedure (2012) (0)
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: Contests of Time in Western Uganda (2012) (0)
Chapter Six. Kenyatta Is Our Reconciler (2009) (0)
Chapter Four. What Should We Do, Our People? (2009) (0)
Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: The Cultural Work of Moral Reform in Northwestern Tanganyika (2012) (0)

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