Peter Way (born 1957) is a Canadian historian of America and the Atlantic world.
[1] He then chaired the History Department at the University of Windsor from 2006 to 2011, where he now teaches.
This study treats soldiers as laborers and the professional army of the time as an essential component to the fiscal-military state that protected merchant capital in the imperial environment.
The book examines the British state, empire and army in the 18th century, casting warfare in economic terms as an instrument of the primitive accumulation of capital.
The book is contracted to University of Pennsylvania Press.