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Dr David Veevers

Lecturer in Early Modern History

d.veevers@bangor.ac.uk

0000-0003-3316-8638

View Dr David Veevers’s profile on the Bangor Research Portal

Overview

David is Lecturer in Early Modern History. He read History at the University of Kent, where he also completed his MA and PhD in 2015. His thesis was a study of the English East India Company in South Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, exploring in particular the way in which informal social networks shaped the formation of an early modern colonial state. 

David stayed at Kent to take up the position of Postdoctoral Associate on the £1m funded 5 year Leverhulme Trust project 'The Global Determinants of the English Constitution', under its P.I. William A. Pettigrew. In 2018, he moved to Queen Mary, University of London, to undertake a 4 year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the School of History. He joined the School of History, Law, and Social Sciences at the University of Bangor in 2022, where he teaches courses on seventeenth century England, early modern Asia, and global history more widely.

David's next book, The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire, is forthcoming May 2023 with Penguin/Ebury.

Additional Contact Information

D.Veevers@bangor.ac.uk

Teaching and Supervision

Undergraduate

HSH-3040: The Glorious Revolution in England and Wales

HPS-3006: Dissertation

Postgraduate

HPH-4030: The Glorious Revolution

HPH-4005: Themes and Issues in History

Research Interests

David studies the early modern British Empire, with a particular emphasis on the expansion of the English East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He's interested in the cross-cultural links between the English and the Asian societies they engaged with, as well as the political and diplomatic relationships the Company and its officials constructed with Asian polities, such as the Mughal Empire. More recently, his research has become much more global, focusing on the Indigenous and non-European experiences of English colonialism. His new book tells the story of how non-European people encountered British imperial expansion in the years 1500 to 1800, and either accomodated, contained or resisted it, from the Atlantic to East Asia, and everywhere in between.

Publications

2023

  • PublishedThe Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire
    Veevers, D., 25 May 2023, Penguin. 416 p.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book

2021

  • PublishedBuilding Borders in a Borderless Land: English Colonialism and the Alam Minangkabau of Sumatra, 1680 - 1730
    Veevers, D., Jun 2021, In: Journal of the British Academy. 9, 4, p. 58-89 32 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

  • PublishedBefore Empire
    Veevers, D., Oct 2020, In: History Today. 70, 10, p. 28-41 13 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  • PublishedLet the Statues Fall
    Veevers, D., Oct 2020, In: The World Today. 76, 6, p. 30-31 2 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  • PublishedThe Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600 - 1750
    Veevers, D., Jun 2020, Cambridge University Press. 293 p.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
  • PublishedTrading Companies and Business Diplomacy in the Early Modern World
    Veevers, D. & Pettigrew, W., May 2020, In: Diplomatica. 2, 1, p. 39-47 9 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

  • PublishedThe Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c. 1550-1750
    Veevers, D. (Editor) & Pettigrew, W. (Editor), 2019, Brill. 332 p.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

2018

  • PublishedGender
    Veevers, D., 2018, The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c.1550-1750. Veevers, D. & Pettigrew, W. (eds.). Brill, Vol. 16. p. 187-210 13 p.
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • PublishedIntroduction
    Veevers, D. & Pettigrew, W., 2018, The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c.1550 - 1750. Veevers, D. & Pettigrew, W. (eds.). Brill, Vol. 16. p. 1-42 42 p.
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2017

  • PublishedThe Contested-State: Political Authority and the Decentred Foundations of the Early Modern Colonial State in Asia
    Veevers, D., 2017, The East India Company, 1600-1857: Essays on Anglo-Indian connection. Pettigrew, W. & Gopalan, M. (eds.). Routledge, p. 175-192 17 p.
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2015

  • Published"Inhabitants of the Universe": Global Families, Kinship Networks and the Formation of the Early Modern Colonial State in Asia
    Veevers, D., 2015, In: Journal of Global History. 10, 1, p. 99-121 22 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2013

  • Published"The Company as their Lords and the Deputy as a Great Rajah": Imperial Expansion and the English East India Company on the West Coast of Sumatra, 1685-1730
    Veevers, D., 2013, In: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 41, 5, p. 687-709 22 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Projects

  • Indigenous Enslavement and the Beginning of English Plantation Colonies in the Lesser Antilles, 1600 - 1676

    01/09/2024 – 15/09/2026 (Active)

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