Scholars@Duke
Philip J. Stern

Philip J. Stern

Professor of History
History
philip.stern@duke.edu
Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
History Dept, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Alcohol and the Ambivalence of the Early English East India Company-State

Journal article Historical Journal · February 1, 2022 This article explores the various roles that alcohol played in defining the governance of East India Company fortifications and settlements in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It argues that, much like elsewhere in Europe, Asia, and the colo ... Full text Cite

Bombay: The genealogy of a global imperial city

Journal article Urban History · August 1, 2021 This article will argue that the history of East India Company Bombay - like that of many foreign British enterprises, and like many other 'global' cities and indeed colonies generally - is best understood as the product of contradictions and contingencies ... Full text Cite

Inquiring into the Corpus of Empire

Journal article Journal of World History · 2021 Full text Cite

Early Eighteenth-Century British India: Antimeridian or antemeridiem?

Journal article Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History · June 1, 2020 In the thirty years since the publication of C.A. Bayly’s Imperial Meridian, the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Empire has moved definitively from the “sidelines” to the center of British imperial historiography. This article asks ho ... Full text Cite

Introduction: Crossing Companies

Journal article Journal of World History · 2020 Full text Cite

Introduction to the Proceedings of the Seminar on Corporations and International Law

Journal article Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law · 2018 Link to item Cite

The Corporation and the Global Seventeenth-Century English Empire: A Tale of Three Cities

Journal article Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal · 2018 Full text Cite

Seeing (and Not Seeing) like a Company-State: Hybridity, Heterotopia, Historiography

Journal article Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies · 2017 Full text Cite

The Ideology of the Imperial Corporation: “Informal” Empire Revisited

Journal article Chartering Capitalism: Organizing Markets, States, and Publics (Political Power and Social Theory) · 2015 Full text Cite

Corporate Virtue: The Languages of Empire in Early Modern British Asia

Journal article Renaissance Studies · August 2012 Cite

Soldier and Citizen in the Seventeenth-Century English East India Company

Journal article Journal of Early Modern History · 2011 Cite

Introduction: Rethinking Institutional Transformations in the Making of Modern Empire in Company South India

Journal article Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History · October 2008 Cite

Rethinking Institutional Transformations in the Making of Modern Empire: The East India Company in Madras

Journal article Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History · September 2008 Full text Cite

Politics and Ideology in the Early East India Company-State: The Case of St. Helena, 1673-1696

Journal article Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History · March 2007 Cite

British Asia and British Atlantic: Comparisons and Connections

Journal article William and Mary Quarterly · October 2006 Cite