Peter Denton
Title: Contract Academic Staff
Phone: 204.786.9184
Office: 3A17
Building: Ashdown
Email: p.denton@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Dr. Peter Denton is Adjunct Associate Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada, where he has specialized in technology, warfare and society (as well as in religion and war, and defence ethics) since 2003. Promoted to Associate Professor of History at RMC in 2006 and converted to Adjunct status in 2013, he held previous appointments at the University of Winnipeg as Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies from 2001-2003, and as Instructor in Technical Communication/Ethics and Sustainability at Red River College from 2004-2015.
An ordained minister of the United Church of Canada, he holds five degrees: B.A. (Hons.) in English and History (Winnipeg); M.A. in English (UNB); M.A. in the history and philosophy of science and technology (IHPST, Toronto); M.Div. (Knox College, Toronto); and Ph.D. in Religion and the Social Sciences (McMaster).
A sustainability activist and writer, he also teaches at UW in the departments of Philosophy and Sociology/Criminal Justice and contributed bi-weekly op eds to the Winnipeg Free Press (for ten years), primarily on issues involving ecological justice.
Courses:
HIST 2901 History of Technology
HIST 2912 History of Modern Medicine
HIST 2903 History of Happiness and Wellbeing
HIST 2112 War as a Social Institution
HIST 2216 Early Medieval History
HIST 2120 Business History
HIST 3112 Militarism in the Modern World
HIST 3121 Women in the Modern World: A History of Prostitution
HIST 3131 Revolutionary Responses to Climate Change
Research Interests:
History of technology; military history; history of science; history of printing and communication; history of medicine; environmental history; Interwar period
Publications:
The End of Technology. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2022; 2nd edition (in press, Spring 2026). 190 pp.
Imagine a Joyful Economy. With James Gustave Speth. Kelowna, BC: Wood Lake Books, 2020. 72 pp.
Live Close to Home. Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, 2016. 168 pp.
Technology and Sustainability. Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, 2014. 168 pp.
Gift Ecology: Reimagining a Sustainable World. Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, 2012. 168 pp.
Peter H. Denton, ed. The Philosophy of Democracy, with introduction. Essays in Philosophy Vol. 16, No. 1 (January 2015).
Peter H. Denton, ed. Believers in the Battlespace: Religion, Ideology and War/Les croyances dans l’espace du combat: Religion, idéologie et guerre. Kingston, ON: Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2011. Xxiii + 231 pp./ Xvi + 289 pp.
Sal Restivo and Peter H. Denton, eds. Battleground: Science and Technology. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. 616 pp.
Peter H. Denton, ed. The Philosophy of Technology, with introduction: “On the Nature of Technology.” Essays in Philosophy Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2005). http://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/vol6/iss1/
The ABC of Armageddon: Bertrand Russell on Science, Religion and the Next War, 1919–1938. SUNY Series on Science, Technology and Society, edited Sal Restivo and Jennifer Croissant. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Xxvi + 174 pp.