Peter Carey (1948-) is a British historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

 and author who studies East Timor

East Timor

The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor , is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor...

, Java

Java

Java is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...

 and Burma. He was the Laithwaite fellow of Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford

Trinity College, Oxford

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. His major early work has concentrated on the history of Diponegoro

Diponegoro

Diponegoro , also known as Dipanegara, was a Javanese prince who opposed the Dutch colonial rule. He played an important role in the Java War...

, the British in Java

Java Expedition

The Java Expedition established the British in control of Java from 1811 to August 1816, with Stamford Raffles as its Lieutenant Governor.Around 1807, Napoleon I of France, after having deposed his brother Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, had ordered General Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen to...

 and the Java War

Java War

The Java War or Diponegoro War was fought in Java between 1825 and 1830. It started as a rebellion led by Prince Diponegoro. The proximate cause was the Dutch decision to build a road across a piece of his property that contained his parents' tomb...

.

He regularly comments on the history and politics of Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

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 to the British media.

He is currently the Country Director for the Cambodia Trust, in Jakarta, Indonesia 

Publications

• 1980 The Archive of Yogyakarta. Volume 1. Documents Relating to Politics and Internal Court Affairs (London: British Academy for the Oxford University Press)
• 1981 Babad Dipanagara
  Diponegoro
  Diponegoro , also known as Dipanegara, was a Javanese prince who opposed the Dutch colonial rule. He played an important role in the Java War...
  
  . An Account of the Outbreak of the Java War (1825-30)
  Java War
  The Java War or Diponegoro War was fought in Java between 1825 and 1830. It started as a rebellion led by Prince Diponegoro. The proximate cause was the Dutch decision to build a road across a piece of his property that contained his parents' tomb...
  
  (Kuala Lumpur: Art Printers for the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society)
• 1986 Maritime Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Their Post-War Development and Current Resources (Oxford: JASO)
• 1988 With Colin Wild (ed.), Born in Fire. The Indonesian Struggle for Independence. An Anthology (Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press)
• 1988? Voyage à Djokja-Karta en 1825. The Outbreak of the Java War As Seen by a Painter (Paris: Association Archipel)
• 1992 The British in Java
  Java Expedition
  The Java Expedition established the British in control of Java from 1811 to August 1816, with Stamford Raffles as its Lieutenant Governor.Around 1807, Napoleon I of France, after having deposed his brother Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, had ordered General Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen to...
  
  , 1811-1816. A Javanese Account (London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy)
• 1995 With G. Carter Bentley (eds.), East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of a Nation (London: Cassell)
• With Steve Cox, Generations of Resistance: East Timor London: Cassell
• 1997 Burma: The Challenge of Change in a Divided Society (Basingstoke: MacMillan)
• 2000 With Mason C. Hoadley (eds.), The Archive of Yogyakarta, vol.2. Documents relating to Economic and Agrarian Affairs (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy)
• 2007 The Power of Prophecy: Prince Dipanagara and the End of an Old Order in Java, 1785-1855, Leiden: KITLV Press (second revised edition July 2008)

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