Philip J Stern
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1708602 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Philip J Stern |
| PRENOMES | Philip J |
| SOBRENOME | Stern |
| ASSINATURA | STERN P J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2027-6306 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Empire, Incorporated
Bombay
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. Bombay was never easy to define geographically and its identity as an ‘English’ settlement was precarious. It could not insulate itself militarily from the powerful polities nearby; nor could …
Alcohol and the Ambivalence of the Early English East India Company-State
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 colonial world, alcohol was absolutely crucial to political and social life, as well as a source of great revenue and profit for both the Company and individuals who worked for it. At the same time,…
Early Eighteenth-Century British India
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 how Bayly’s method and argument might be transplanted to help us understand different periods of colonial development, inspired both by his call to situate the growth of the British Empire in the…
Power, Petitions, and the ‘Povo’ in Early English Bombay
This chapter examines the role petitioning and civil society played in early English attempts to establish political authority at Bombay. The so-called ‘transfer’ of Portuguese authority, first to the English Crown and subsequently to the English East India Company, was hardly immediate, and required varied efforts by English officials to establish power and legitimacy over the places, populace, and littoral they claimed to govern. Drawing on Eur…
Politics, State, and Empire in Weber’s The Religion of India
Parasites, Persons, and Princes
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Mercantilism Reimagined
Corporate virtue
“The Most Sure and Profitable Sort of Merchandice”
Confronting enduring historiographical assumptions that hold that the East India Company’s policies and attitudes were hostile or ambivalent towards religion, this chapter argues that religion was in fact central to the Company’s constitution and political thought in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. While emphasizing the importance of toleration as a key principle of political economy, essential for cultivating populous and commerc…
“A Sort of Republic for the Management of Trade”
This chapter examines the nature of the East India Company’s claim to authority over English affairs in Asia. Though often regarded as possessing a monopoly over the English trade to and from Asia, the Company in fact insisted it maintained a jurisdiction by virtue of its charters not just over the trade but also the traffic of any English subject in the East Indies. Evidenced in instruments like Company shipping passes and Admiralty Courts, this…
“A Sword in One Hand & Money in the Other”
This chapter argues that through the early eighteenth century, the Company continued to apply ideas and policies established in the previous century; however, retrained on new objects, these attitudes subtly began to shape the foundations for a Company empire in India. As Anglo-American piracy was eliminated by the 1720s, the political, legal, and marital regime the Company had established to confront it was retrained on Asian maritime rivals, mo…
“Planning & Peopling Your Colony”
This chapter details the origins of the East India Company’s network of fortified settlements in Asia and South Atlantic, beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, ultimately establishing outposts at Madras, St. Helena, and Bombay. It argues that the Company conceived of these settlements not simply as trading posts or factories but as colonies and plantations, modelled upon and sometimes in competition with other such European efforts in the Atl…
“Great Warrs Leave Behind them Long Tales”
This chapter traces the development of East India Company’s colonial system in the 1690s. It argues that, despite serious setbacks, including the invasion and occupation of Bombay by Mughal-allied forces in 1689, there was continuity between the Company’s earlier efforts, as described particularly in chapters 1 and 3, and those in the last decade of the seventeenth century to preserve and enhance its establishment abroad. In the aftermath of the …
The Company-State
This book rethinks the nature of the early English East India Company as a form of polity and corporate sovereign well before its supposed transformation into a state and empire in the mid-eighteenth century. It explores the Company’s political and legal constitution as an overseas corporation and the political institutions and behaviors that followed from it, from tax collection and public health to war-making and colonial plantation. This book …
Soldier and Citizen in the Seventeenth-Century English East India Company
This article examines the role of fortifications, garrisons, and militia service in the English East India Company’s early settlements in Asia and the Atlantic. Affecting everything from the physical space of such a settlement to the status and rights of its inhabitants, the institutions and ideologies of a variety of forms of military service revealed the degree to which Company leadership had early on come to understand their settlements in Asi…
The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820. Volume I
History and Historiography of the English East India Company
This article explores recent developments in the historiography of the English East India Company. It proposes that there has been an efflorescence of late in scholarship on the Company that is directly tied both to the resurgence of imperial studies in British history as well as to contemporary concerns such as globalization, border‐crossings, and transnationalism. These transformations have in turn begun to change some of the most basic narrati…
Britain's Declining Empire
Book Review| December 01 2009 Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968 Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968 Ronald Hyam Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 xviii, 464 pp., $85.00 (cloth), $32.99 (paper) Philip Stern Philip Stern Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 583–584. https://doi.or…
Caribbean Exchanges
Susan Dwyer Amussen, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640–1700 (2007), 320 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, $59.95, paperback $22.50). In th
A Politie of Civill & Military Power”
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Rethinking Institutional Transformations in the Making of Modern Empire
The Global Eighteenth Century (review)
Reviewed by: The Global Eighteenth Century ed. by Felicity A. Nussbaum Philip J. Stern The Global Eighteenth Century. Edited by Felicity A. Nussbaum. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. At times, it seems that an ever-growing impulse to go transnational, global, and imperial has left eighteenth-century studies — forgiving the pun — all over the map. The Global Eighteenth Century, an outgrowth of a series of conferences at the UCL…
Politics and Ideology in the Early East India Company-State
The English East India Company has long been regarded as a ‘mere merchant’ that turned into a sovereign only with its eighteenth-century territorial acquisitions in India. Focusing on the first decades of Company rule at St Helena, this article argues instead that the late seventeenth-century Company aspired to become a polity in itself: a self-sustaining global system built upon sound civic institutions and informed by a coherent if composite po…
A Politie of Civill & Military Power”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Politics and Ideology in the Early East India Company-State
The English East India Company has long been regarded as a ‘mere merchant’ that turned into a sovereign only with its eighteenth-century territorial acquisitions in India. Focusing on the first decades of Company rule at St Helena, this article argues instead that the late seventeenth-century Company aspired to become a polity in itself: a self-sustaining global system built upon sound civic institutions and informed by a coherent if composite po…
History and Historiography of the English East India Company
This article explores recent developments in the historiography of the English East India Company. It proposes that there has been an efflorescence of late in scholarship on the Company that is directly tied both to the resurgence of imperial studies in British history as well as to contemporary concerns such as globalization, border‐crossings, and transnationalism. These transformations have in turn begun to change some of the most basic narrati…
Alcohol and the Ambivalence of the Early English East India Company-State
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 colonial world, alcohol was absolutely crucial to political and social life, as well as a source of great revenue and profit for both the Company and individuals who worked for it. At the same time,…
Corporate virtue
Early Eighteenth-Century British India
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 how Bayly’s method and argument might be transplanted to help us understand different periods of colonial development, inspired both by his call to situate the growth of the British Empire in the…
The Global Eighteenth Century (review)
Reviewed by: The Global Eighteenth Century ed. by Felicity A. Nussbaum Philip J. Stern The Global Eighteenth Century. Edited by Felicity A. Nussbaum. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. At times, it seems that an ever-growing impulse to go transnational, global, and imperial has left eighteenth-century studies — forgiving the pun — all over the map. The Global Eighteenth Century, an outgrowth of a series of conferences at the UCL…
Politics and Ideology in the Early East India Company-State
The English East India Company has long been regarded as a ‘mere merchant’ that turned into a sovereign only with its eighteenth-century territorial acquisitions in India. Focusing on the first decades of Company rule at St Helena, this article argues instead that the late seventeenth-century Company aspired to become a polity in itself: a self-sustaining global system built upon sound civic institutions and informed by a coherent if composite po…
A Politie of Civill & Military Power”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Rethinking Institutional Transformations in the Making of Modern Empire
History and Historiography of the English East India Company
This article explores recent developments in the historiography of the English East India Company. It proposes that there has been an efflorescence of late in scholarship on the Company that is directly tied both to the resurgence of imperial studies in British history as well as to contemporary concerns such as globalization, border‐crossings, and transnationalism. These transformations have in turn begun to change some of the most basic narrati…
Britain's Declining Empire
Book Review| December 01 2009 Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968 Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968 Ronald Hyam Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 xviii, 464 pp., $85.00 (cloth), $32.99 (paper) Philip Stern Philip Stern Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 583–584. https://doi.or…
Caribbean Exchanges
Susan Dwyer Amussen, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640–1700 (2007), 320 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, $59.95, paperback $22.50). In th
“The Most Sure and Profitable Sort of Merchandice”
Confronting enduring historiographical assumptions that hold that the East India Company’s policies and attitudes were hostile or ambivalent towards religion, this chapter argues that religion was in fact central to the Company’s constitution and political thought in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. While emphasizing the importance of toleration as a key principle of political economy, essential for cultivating populous and commerc…
“A Sort of Republic for the Management of Trade”
This chapter examines the nature of the East India Company’s claim to authority over English affairs in Asia. Though often regarded as possessing a monopoly over the English trade to and from Asia, the Company in fact insisted it maintained a jurisdiction by virtue of its charters not just over the trade but also the traffic of any English subject in the East Indies. Evidenced in instruments like Company shipping passes and Admiralty Courts, this…
“A Sword in One Hand & Money in the Other”
This chapter argues that through the early eighteenth century, the Company continued to apply ideas and policies established in the previous century; however, retrained on new objects, these attitudes subtly began to shape the foundations for a Company empire in India. As Anglo-American piracy was eliminated by the 1720s, the political, legal, and marital regime the Company had established to confront it was retrained on Asian maritime rivals, mo…
“Planning & Peopling Your Colony”
This chapter details the origins of the East India Company’s network of fortified settlements in Asia and South Atlantic, beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, ultimately establishing outposts at Madras, St. Helena, and Bombay. It argues that the Company conceived of these settlements not simply as trading posts or factories but as colonies and plantations, modelled upon and sometimes in competition with other such European efforts in the Atl…
“Great Warrs Leave Behind them Long Tales”
This chapter traces the development of East India Company’s colonial system in the 1690s. It argues that, despite serious setbacks, including the invasion and occupation of Bombay by Mughal-allied forces in 1689, there was continuity between the Company’s earlier efforts, as described particularly in chapters 1 and 3, and those in the last decade of the seventeenth century to preserve and enhance its establishment abroad. In the aftermath of the …
The Company-State
This book rethinks the nature of the early English East India Company as a form of polity and corporate sovereign well before its supposed transformation into a state and empire in the mid-eighteenth century. It explores the Company’s political and legal constitution as an overseas corporation and the political institutions and behaviors that followed from it, from tax collection and public health to war-making and colonial plantation. This book …
Soldier and Citizen in the Seventeenth-Century English East India Company
This article examines the role of fortifications, garrisons, and militia service in the English East India Company’s early settlements in Asia and the Atlantic. Affecting everything from the physical space of such a settlement to the status and rights of its inhabitants, the institutions and ideologies of a variety of forms of military service revealed the degree to which Company leadership had early on come to understand their settlements in Asi…
The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820. Volume I
Corporate virtue
Mercantilism Reimagined
Parasites, Persons, and Princes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Politics, State, and Empire in Weber’s The Religion of India
Power, Petitions, and the ‘Povo’ in Early English Bombay
This chapter examines the role petitioning and civil society played in early English attempts to establish political authority at Bombay. The so-called ‘transfer’ of Portuguese authority, first to the English Crown and subsequently to the English East India Company, was hardly immediate, and required varied efforts by English officials to establish power and legitimacy over the places, populace, and littoral they claimed to govern. Drawing on Eur…
Early Eighteenth-Century British India
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 how Bayly’s method and argument might be transplanted to help us understand different periods of colonial development, inspired both by his call to situate the growth of the British Empire in the…
Bombay
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. Bombay was never easy to define geographically and its identity as an ‘English’ settlement was precarious. It could not insulate itself militarily from the powerful polities nearby; nor could …
Alcohol and the Ambivalence of the Early English East India Company-State
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 colonial world, alcohol was absolutely crucial to political and social life, as well as a source of great revenue and profit for both the Company and individuals who worked for it. At the same time,…
Empire, Incorporated
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