Nicholas Tarling

Nicholas Tarling
Born
Peter Nicholas Tarling

(1931-02-01)1 February 1931
Died13 May 2017(2017-05-13) (aged 86)
Auckland, New Zealand
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisBritish Policy towards the Dutch and Native Princes in the Malay Archipelago, 1824–1871 (1956)
Doctoral advisorVictor Purcell
Academic work
InstitutionsRoyal Historical Society
University of Queensland
University of Auckland
Doctoral studentsBrook Barrington[1]
Notable worksThe Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (1992)

Peter Nicholas Tarling MNZM (1 February 1931 – 13 May 2017) was a historian, academic, and author. He specialised in Southeast Asian history, and wrote on 18th- and 19th-century Malaysia, North Borneo, Philippines, and Laos, especially regarding foreign involvement in those countries.

  1. ^ Barrington, Brook (1993). New Zealand and the search for security 1944-1954: 'a modest and moderate collaboration' (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland.

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