| Creative Writing: translation, bookkeeping, and the work of imagination in colonial Kenya DR Peterson | 289 | 2004 |
| Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: a history of dissent, c. 1935-1972 DR Peterson Cambridge University Press, 2012 | 277 | 2012 |
| The invention of religion: Rethinking belief in politics and history DR Peterson, DR Walhof Rutgers University Press, 2002 | 124 | 2002 |
| The Politics of Heritage in Africa: economies, histories, and infrastructures DR Peterson, K Gavua, C Rassool Cambridge, 2015 | 119 | 2015 |
| Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic DR Peterson Ohio University Press, 2010 | 95 | 2010 |
| Recasting the Past: history writing and political work in modern Africa D Peterson, G Macola Ohio University Press, 2009 | 93 | 2009 |
| African Print Cultures: newspapers and their publics in the twentieth century D Peterson, S Newell, E Hunter University of Michigan Press, 2016 | 83 | 2016 |
| Translating the word: Dialogism and debate in two Gikuyu dictionaries D Peterson Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission, 555-578, 2021 | 62 | 2021 |
| Morality plays: Marriage, church courts, and colonial agency in Central Tanganyika, ca. 1876–1928 DR Peterson The American Historical Review 111 (4), 983-1010, 2006 | 57 | 2006 |
| Rethinking the state in Idi Amin's Uganda: the politics of exhortation DR Peterson, EC Taylor Journal of Eastern African Studies 7 (1), 58-82, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
| The intellectual lives of Mau Mau detainees DR Peterson The Journal of African History 49 (1), 73-91, 2008 | 52 | 2008 |
| Wordy women: Gender trouble and the oral politics of the east African revival in Northern Gikuyuland D Peterson The Journal of African History 42 (3), 469-489, 2001 | 50 | 2001 |
| Abolition and imperialism: international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade R Law, DR Peterson Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic, 150-74, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |
| Making the Chikunda: military slavery and ethnicity in southern Africa, 1750-1900 A Isaacman, D Peterson The International journal of African historical studies 36 (2), 257-281, 2003 | 43 | 2003 |
| Introduction: heritage management in colonial and contemporary Africa DR Peterson The politics of heritage in Africa: Economies, histories, and …, 2015 | 41 | 2015 |
| Introduction: homespun historiography and the academic profession D Peterson, G Macola Ohio University Press, 2009 | 37 | 2009 |
| Creative Writing: Translation DR Peterson Bookkeeping, and the Work of, 2004 | 35 | 2004 |
| Rethinking religion DR Peterson, D Walhof The invention of religion, 1-18, 2002 | 34 | 2002 |
| Print culture in colonial Africa E Hunter, D Peterson African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth …, 2016 | 30 | 2016 |
| The politics of transcendence in colonial Uganda DR Peterson Past & Present 230 (1), 197-225, 2016 | 30 | 2016 |
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