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Details for Professor Peter Coates
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Peter Coates |
| Job title | Professor of American and Environmental History |
| Department | Department of History (Historical Studies) University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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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. |