Publications of Philip J. Stern

Books

  1. Stern, PJ, Empire, Incorporated The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (May, 2023), Belknap Press, ISBN 0674988124
  2. The English East India Company at the Height of Mughal Expansion A Soldier's Diary of the 1689 Siege of Bombay, with Related Documents, edited by Stern, PJ; Hunt, MR (2015), Bedford/St. Martins, ISBN 978-1-4576-6401-4
  3. Philip J Stern and Carl Wennerlind, eds., Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire, edited by Stern, PJ; Wennerlind, C (2013), Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199988532
  4. Stern, PJ, The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (2012), ISBN 9780199930364
  5. Stern, PJ, The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (September, 2011), pp. 1-320, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195393736
  6. P. Stern, The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and The Early Modern Origins of the British Empire in India (2011), Oxford University Press

Books in Progress

  1. P.J. Stern and Margaret Hunt, eds., The English East India at the Height of Mughal Expansion (forthcoming), Bedford/St. Martin's

Book Chapters

  1. Philip J Stern and Carl Wennerlind, Introduction, in Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire, edited by Philip J Stern and Carl Wennerlind (2014), Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199988532

Papers In Progress

  1. P.J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind, "Introduction", in Rethinking Mercantilism, edited by P.J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind (forthcoming, 2013), Oxford University Press

Book Reviews

  1. Stern, PJ, Alcohol and the Ambivalence of the Early English East India Company-State, Historical Journal, vol. 65 no. 1 (February, 2022), pp. 185-201
  2. Hunt, MR; Stern, PJ, Bombay: The genealogy of a global imperial city, Urban History, vol. 48 no. 3 (August, 2021), pp. 461-478
  3. Doherty, S; Ford, L; McKenzie, K; Parkinson, N; Roberts, D; Halliday, P; Laidlaw, Z; Lester, A; Stern, P, Inquiring into the Corpus of Empire, Journal of World History, vol. 32 no. 2 (2021), pp. 219-240, Project Muse
  4. Stern, PJ, Early Eighteenth-Century British India: Antimeridian or antemeridiem?, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 21 no. 2 (June, 2020), Project Muse
  5. Gottmann, F; Stern, P, Introduction: Crossing Companies, Journal of World History, vol. 31 no. 3 (2020), pp. 477-488, Project Muse
  6. Brewster, R, Introduction to the Proceedings of the Seminar on Corporations and International Law, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, vol. 28 no. 3 (2018), pp. 413-423
  7. Stern, PJ, The Corporation and the Global Seventeenth-Century English Empire: A Tale of Three Cities, Early American Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 16 no. 1 (2018), pp. 41-63, Project Muse
  8. Stern, PJ, Seeing (and Not Seeing) like a Company-State: Hybridity, Heterotopia, Historiography, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 17 no. 3 (2017), pp. 105-120, Project Muse
  9. Stern, PJ, Parasites, Persons, and Princes: Evolutionary Biology of the Corporate Constitution, Itinerario, vol. 39 no. 3 (January, 2016), pp. 512-525, Cambridge University Press (CUP)
  10. Stern, P, The English East India Company and the Modern Corporation: Legacies, Lessons, and Limitations, Seattle University Law Review, vol. 39 no. 2 (2016)
  11. Stern, PJ, The Ideology of the Imperial Corporation: “Informal” Empire Revisited, Chartering Capitalism: Organizing Markets, States, and Publics (Political Power and Social Theory), vol. 29 (2015), pp. 15-43, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
  12. Stern, PJ, Review, Bibliography of the East India Company: Books, Pamphlets, and Other Materials Printed Between 1600 and 1785 by Catherine Pickett, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2013)
  13. Stern, PJ, Corporate Virtue: The Languages of Empire in Early Modern British Asia, Renaissance Studies (August, 2012)
  14. Stern, PJ, Review of So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism by James Fichter, Journal of British Studies, vol. 51 no. 2 (April, 2012)
  15. Stern, PJ, James R. Fichter. So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 400. $35.00 (cloth)., Journal of British Studies, vol. 51 no. 2 (April, 2012), pp. 451-453, Cambridge University Press (CUP)
  16. Stern, PJ, Review of The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, Volume I: Letters, 1768-1782, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 54 no. 1 (2011), pp. 112-15
  17. Stern, PJ, Soldier and Citizen in the Seventeenth-Century English East India Company, Journal of Early Modern History, vol. 15 no. 1-2 (2011), pp. 83-104, BRILL
  18. Stern, PJ, The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820. Volume I: Letters 1768-1782, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 54 no. 1 (2011), pp. 112-115, Brill
  19. Stern, PJ, Review of the Domination of Strangers: Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835 by Jon Wilson, Reviews in History no. 790 (September, 2009)
  20. Stern, PJ, Review of Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918-1968, by Ronald Hyam, Comparative Journal of South Asian, Middle Eastern, and African History (August, 2009)
  21. Stern, PJ, Review of Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, by Susan Dwyer Amussen, Social History (August, 2009)
  22. Stern, PJ, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640–1700, Social History, vol. 34 no. 3 (August, 2009), pp. 362-364, Informa UK Limited
  23. 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)
  24. Stern, PJ, Neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth: Early Modern Empire and Global History, Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 72 no. 1 (March, 2009), pp. 113-126, Project Muse, ISSN 0018-7895
  25. Stern, PJ, The History and Historiography of the English East India Company: Past, Present...and Future!, History Compass, vol. 7 no. 4 (2009)
  26. Stern, P, Introduction: Rethinking Institutional Transformations in the Making of Modern Empire in Company South India, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 9 no. 2 (Fall, 2008)
  27. Stern, P, 'A Politie of Civill & Military Power’: Political Thought and the Late Seventeenth-Century Foundations of the East India Company-State, Journal of British Studies, vol. 47 no. 2 (April, 2008), pp. 253-283
  28. Stern, PJ, Rethinking Institutional Transformations in the Making of Modern Empire: The East India Company in Madras, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 9 no. 2 (2008), Project Muse
  29. Stern, P, Posmodern Gandhi and Other Essays; Gandhi in the World and at Home, by Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Journal of British Studies, vol. 46 no. 4 (June, 2007)
  30. Stern, P, Politics and Ideology in the Early East India Company-State: The Case of St. Helena, 1673-1696, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 35 no. 1 (March, 2007), pp. 1-23
  31. Stern, P, The Global Eighteenth Century, edited by Felicity Nussbaum, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 8 no. 1 (Spring, 2007)
  32. Stern, P, British Asia and British Atlantic: Comparisons and Connections, William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 63 no. 4 (October, 2006), pp. 693-712
  33. Stern, P, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850, by Maya Jasanoff, William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 63 no. 2 (April, 2006)
  34. Stern, P, Forging the Raj: Essays on British India in the Heyday of Empire, by Thomas R. Metcalf and The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, by Denis Judd, Victorian Studies, vol. 49 no. 1 (Fall, 2006)
  35. Stern, P, The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London 1660-1740 by Søren Mentz, Journal of Economic History, vol. 65 no. 4 (December, 2005)

Occasional Writing

  1. Stern, PJ, Politics, State, and Empire in weber's the religion of India (March, 2017), pp. 199-222, ISBN 9781107133877

Other

  1. Stern, P, An Empire of Shopkeepers? The Middling Sort and the Making of the Early English East India Company, in To Take Us Lands Away: Essays in Honour of Margaret R. Hunt, edited by Wendel-Hansen, A; Hoyer, F; Nordström, K (2022), Studia Historica Upsaliensia
  2. Stern, P, Legal geography and colonial sovereignty: the making of early English ‘Bombay', in Making the British Empire 1660-1800, edited by Peacey, J (2020), Manchester University Press
  3. Stern, P, The 1689 Siege of Bombay in Global Historical Perspective, in The World of the Siege, edited by Fischer-Kattner, A; Osterwald, J (2019), Brill
  4. Stern, P, The Google of its Time? The English East India Company and the Modern Corporation, in The Oxford Handbook of the Corporation, edited by Clarke, T (2019), Oxford University Press
  5. Stern, PJ, Limited Liabilities: The corporation and the political economy of protection in the british empire, in Protection and Empire: A Global History (November, 2017), pp. 114-131, ISBN 9781108417860
  6. Stern, PJ, The Corporation in History, in The Corporation: A Critical, Multi-Disciplinary Handbook (March, 2017), pp. 21-46, ISBN 9781107073111
  7. Stern, PJ, Politics, State, and Empire in Weber’s The Religion of India, in Max Weber’s Economic Ethos of the World Religions, edited by Ertman, TC (2017), Cambridge University Press
  8. Stern, P, Petitions, Power, and the ‘Povo’ in Early English Bombay, in Thinking through Law in South Asia, edited by Balachandran, A; Pant, R; Raman, B (2017), Oxford University Press
  9. Stern, PJ, "Bundles of hyphens": Corporations as legal communities in the early modern British empire, in Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850, edited by L Benton and R Ross (December, 2013), pp. 21-47, NYU Press, ISBN 0814771165
  10. Ross, RJ; Stern, PJ, Reconstructing early modern notions of legal pluralism, in Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 (December, 2013), pp. 109-141, ISBN 0814771165
  11. Stern, PJ, Atlantic Ocean and India, in Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History, edited by Trevor Burnard (2013), Oxford University Press
  12. Stern, PJ, "Trading Companies", in Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, edited by Miller, JC (February, 2012), Princeton University Press
  13. Stern, PJ, Company, state, and empire: Governance and regulatory frameworks in Asia, in Britain's Oceanic Empire: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c. 1550-1850 (January, 2012), pp. 130-150, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107020146
  14. Stern, PJ, Sovereignty, in Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, edited by Miller, JC (2012)
  15. Stern, PJ, Governance and Regulatory Frameworks in Early Modern British Asia, in British Atlantic and British Asia: Two Worlds or One?, edited by Bowen, HV; Mancke, E; Reid, J (2012)
  16. Stern, PJ, Exploration and Empire, in Exploration: Reassessing the West’s Encounter with the Rest,, edited by Kennedy, D (2012), Oxford University Press
  17. Stern, PJ, Companies, in Rethinking Mercantilism, edited by Stern, PJ; Wennerlind, C (2012), Oxford University Press
  18. Stern, PJ, From the Fringes of History: The Early East India Company and the Birth of the British Empire in India, in Fringes of Empire, edited by Kolsky, E; Agah, S (2009), Oxford University Press
  19. Stern, P, Exploration: Africa, in Encyclopedia of the Modern World, edited by Stearns, P (2008), Oxford University Press
  20. Stern, P, Exploration: Overview, in Encyclopedia of the Modern World, edited by Stearns, P (2008), Oxford University Press
  21. Stern, P, Auspico Regis et Senatus Angliae: The Political Foundations of the East India Company’s Incorporation into the British Military-Fiscal State, in War, State and Development: Fiscal-Military States in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Sánchez, RT (2007), Eunsa, Pamplona
  22. Stern, P, Enlightenment and Empire, in Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, edited by Benjamin, T (2006), Macmillan, Gale, Thomson
  23. Stern, P, Middle East and India, in Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, edited by Benjamin, T (2006), Macmillan, Gale, Thomson
  24. Stern, P, Companies and Colonization, in Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, edited by Benjamin, T (2006), Macmillan, Gale, Thomson
  25. Stern, P, East India Company, in Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, edited by Benjamin, T (2006), Macmillan, Gale, Thomson
  26. Stern, P, Governors-General and Viceroys, in A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Thought in English, edited by Johnson, D; Poddar, P (2005), Edinburgh University Press
  27. Stern, P, ’Rescuing the Age from a Charge of Ignorance’: Gentility, Knowledge, and the British Exploration of Africa in the Later Eighteenth Century, in A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840, edited by Wilson, K (2004), Cambridge University Press