Nicholas Tarling | |
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| Born | Peter Nicholas Tarling 1 February 1931 Iver, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Died | 13 May 2017 (aged 86) Auckland, New Zealand |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | British Policy towards the Dutch and Native Princes in the Malay Archipelago, 1824–1871 (1956) |
| Doctoral advisor | Victor Purcell |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Royal Historical Society University of Queensland University of Auckland |
| Doctoral students | Brook Barrington[1] |
| Notable works | The 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.
- ^ Barrington, Brook (1993). New Zealand and the search for security 1944-1954: 'a modest and moderate collaboration' (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland.