Derek R. Peterson, Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Derek R. Peterson, Creative Writing: Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya (Heinemann Publishers, 2004).
Derek R. Peterson and Richard Vokes, eds., The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (Munich: Prestel Publishing, 2021).
African Print Cultures: Newspapers and their Publics in Modern Africa, edited by Derek R. Peterson, Emma Hunter and Stephanie Newell (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016).
Derek R. Peterson, Kodzo Gavua, and Ciraj Rassool, eds., The Politics of Heritage in Africa: Economies, Histories, and Infrastructures (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Derek R. Peterson, ed., Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa and the Atlantic (Ohio University Press, 2010).
Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola, eds., Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa (Ohio University Press, 2009).
Wangari Muoria-Sal, Bodil Folke Frederiksen, John Lonsdale, and Derek R. Peterson, eds., Writing for Kenya: The Life and Works of Henry Muoria (Brill Publishers, 2009).
Derek R. Peterson and Darren Walhof, eds., The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History (Rutgers University Press, 2002).
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