Peter Way


Peter Way is a Canadian historian of America and the Atlantic world.

Life

Born in Belleville, Ontario, he graduated from Trent University in 1981, Queen's University with an M.A. in 1983, and University of Maryland, College Park with a Ph.D., in 1991.
Dr. Way taught at the University of Sussex from 1989 to 2001, and Bowling Green State University, while Department Chair, from 2001 to 2006.
He then chaired the History Department at the University of Windsor from 2006 to 2011, where he now teaches.

Awards

Making War: Common Soldiers and the Forging of Britain’s Atlantic Empire in the Seven Years' War. This study treats soldiers as laborers and the professional army of the time as an essential component to the fiscal-military state that protected merchant capital in the imperial environment. The book examines the British state, empire and army in the 18th century, casting warfare in economic terms as an instrument of the primitive accumulation of capital. The book is contracted to University of Pennsylvania Press.