Peter Carey (historian)
Peter Carey is a British historian and author who specialises in the modern history of Indonesia, Java in particular, and has also written on East Timor and Burma . He was the Laithwaite fellow of Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford, from 1979 to 2008. His major early work concentrated on the history of Diponegoro, the British in Java, 181116 and the Java War on which he has published extensively, his major biography of Diponegoro, The Power of Prophecy, appearing in 2007, and a succinct version, Destiny The Life of Prince Diponegoro of Yogyakarta, 17851855, in 2014. He has also conducted research in Lisbon and the UK amongst the exile East Timorese student community for an Oral History of the Indonesian Occupation of East Timor, 197599, part of which was published in the Cornell University journal Indonesia . He is currently writing his memoirs of his 45 years of involvement with Indonesia, 19702015.
Carey was born to British businessman Thomas Brian Carey and his wife Wendy in Rangoon, Burma, onApril 1948. At the age of seven he and his family moved to the United Kingdom. While in school there, Carey gained knowledge of the Javanese prince Diponegoro, who had led a war against the Dutch colonial forces in the East Indies in the 1820s. He later recalled that his interest in the prince was sparked by Diponegoros closeness to the common people, despite his noble background.
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