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Personal details
Name Professor Peter Coates
Job title Professor of American and Environmental History
Department Department of History (Historical Studies) University of Bristol
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Qualifications M.A.(St.And.), Ph.D.(Cantab.)
Professional details
Membership of professional bodies UK and Ireland representative for the European Society for Environmental History

Member of the executive committee of the American Society for Environmental History

I also belong to the editorial collective for the journal Environment and History.
Keywords American history
United States history
environmental history
rivers
militarized landscapes
Areas of expertise I specialise in nineteenth and twentieth-century American (U.S.) history, especially environmental history (the study of human relations with the rest of the natural world over time). My interest in environmental history is not confined to the United States.

My current research interests focus on two areas: rivers and militarized landscapes. I have begun work on a book about rivers and I am Principal Investigator for a 3-year research project ('Militarized Landscapes in the Twentieth Century: Britain, France and the United States’) funded by the AHRC’s Landscape and Environment Programme.