Philip J Stern
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Office Location: | 232 Carr Building |
| Office Phone: | 919-668-1695 |
| Email Address: | ps91@duke.edu |
- Office Hours:
- 4:15-6 pm, Tuesdays
Education
- PhD Columbia University, 2005
- BA Wesleyan University, 1997
Research Interests
My work focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the early modern period (loosely defined). My current book is a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I am also working on or planning projects related to the history of eighteenth-century British overseas exploration and cartography, the historiography of British India, early modern economic thought, and the history of companies and colonization.
Teaching (Fall 2009):
- HISTORY 107A.01, TUDOR/STUART BRITAIN
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 204, WF 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
- HISTORY 345.01, RDNGS EMPR/COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS
- SEE INSTRU, W 04:25 PM-06:00 PM
- HISTORY 104.03, BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE 18TH CEN
Synopsis
- Carr 240, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- HISTORY 196S.04, THEORIES OF IMPERIALISM
Synopsis
- White 106, Tu 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
Recent Publications
Books in Progress- P. Stern, A State in the Disguise of a Merchant: The Early Modern Origins of the English East India Company-State (under contract, Oxford University Press).
- P. Stern. "'A Politie of Civill & Military Power’: Political Thought and the Late Seventeenth-Century Foundations of the East India Company-State." Journal of British Studies 47:2 (April, 2008): 253-83.
- P.J. Stern, "Review of Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, by Susan Dwyer Amussen". Social History (August, 2009).
- P.J. Stern, ""Neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth: Early Modern Empire and Global History" (Review Essay)". Huntington Library Quarterly (March, 2009).
- P. Stern. "Exploration: Overview." Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Ed. Peter Stearns Oxford University Press, 2008.