Research Interests for Philip J Stern

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.

Recent 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)