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Philip J Stern, Assistant Professor

Contact Info:
Office Location:  232 Carr Building
Office Phone:  919-668-1695
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Spring 2012):

  • HISTORY 105S.02, GTWY: MAPS,EXPLORATION/EMPIRE Synopsis
    Friedl Bdg 126, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
Education:

PhDColumbia University2005
BAWesleyan University1997
Specialties:

Politics, Public Life and Governance
Medieval and Early Modern History
Legal History
Intellectual History
Global Transnational History
Cultural History
Comparative Colonial Studies
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.

Current Ph.D. Students  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. P.J. Stern, Review of So Great a Proffitt: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism by James Fichter, Journal of British Studies, vol. 51 no. 2 (forthcoming, April, 2012)
  2. P.J. Stern, Soldier and Citizen in the Seventeenth-Century English East India Company, Journal of Early Modern History, vol. 15 (2011)
  3. P. Stern, The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and The Early Modern Origins of the British Empire in India (2011), Oxford University Press [available here]
  4. P.J. Stern, Review of the Domination of Strangers: Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835 by Jon Wilson, Reviews in History no. 790 (September, 2009)
  5. P.J. Stern, Review of Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, by Susan Dwyer Amussen, Social History (August, 2009)


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