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Derek Peterson

24 works· latest 2021· 4 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-8653-7233

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Most cited in this library

Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival2012 · 347 citations
Creative writing : translation, bookkeeping, and the work of imagination in colonial Kenya2004 · 233 citations
Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization2010 · 169 citations
Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa2009 · 161 citations
The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History2003 · 132 citations

Works

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Archives of Idi Amin

History in Africa·2021·4 authors

2citations

The Politics of Archives in Uganda

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History·2021·1 author·other

7citations

A history of the heritage economy in Yoweri Museveni’s Uganda

Journal of Eastern African Studies·2016·1 author

22citations

The Politics of Transcendence in Colonial Uganda

Past & Present·2016·1 author

28citations

African Print Cultures

University of Michigan Press eBooks·2016·3 authors·book

72citations

Rethinking the state in Idi Amin's Uganda: the politics of exhortation

Journal of Eastern African Studies·2013·2 authors

55citations

Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival

Cambridge University Press eBooks

Conversion and the Alignments of Colonial Culture

Social Sciences and Missions·2011·1 author

7citations

Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora

Slavery and Abolition·2010·1 author

109citations

Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization

The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History·2010·1 author

169citations

Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic

Ohio University Press eBooks·2010·1 author·book

95citations

Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa

Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)·2009·2 authors

161citations

Introduction: Homespun Historiography and the Academic Profession

Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent)·2009·2 authors·chapter·Open access

27citations

THE INTELLECTUAL LIVES OF MAU MAU DETAINEES

The Journal of African History·2008·1 author·Open access

34citations

"Be Like Firm Soldiers to Develop the Country": Political Imagination and the Geography of Gikuyuland

The International Journal of African Historical Studies·2004·1 author

31citations

The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History

Review of Religious Research·2003·2 authors

132citations

Making the Chikunda: Military Slavery and Ethnicity in Southern Africa, 1750-1900

The International Journal of African Historical Studies·2003·2 authors

19citations

Translating the Word: Dialogism and Debate in Two Gikuyu Dictionaries

Journal of Religious History·1999·1 author

52citations

Introduction: New Directions in the History of Missionsin Africa

Journal of Religious History·1999·2 authors

50citations