(Source: Folger Institute)
Via H-Law,
we learned of the Spring Semester Seminar sponsored by the Folger Institute
Center for the History of British Political Thought
Philip Stern
Spring Semester Seminar
Sponsored by
the Folger Institute Center for the History of British Political Thought
The corporation
was a foundation of medieval and early modern political, religious, and
commercial life and a central feature of early modern European thought about
overseas expansion. This seminar will trace the evolution of the corporation as
an idea and an institution, particularly in relation to European commerce and
empire in Asia, Africa, the Atlantic, and Mediterranean worlds. It will engage
with questions about legal and institutional pluralism and the composite nature
of imperial sovereignty, the intimate relationship between political economy
and political thought, the development of ideas about the distinctions between
“public” good and “private” interest, and the ways in which encounters with
other Europeans as well as indigenous peoples outside Europe influenced
European political and economic thought. Readings will include works by
Giovanni Botero, Johannes Althusius, Gerard de Malynes, Thomas Smith, Richard
Hakluyt, Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, Josiah Child, Charles Davenant, Samuel
Pufendorf, Adam Smith, and Edmund Burke, as well as various texts—such as
administrative records, legal documents, and institutional
correspondence—critical to excavating the political thought of corporations in
the early modern world.
Director: Philip Stern is Gilhuly
Family Associate Professor of History at Duke University and the author
of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern
Foundations of the British Empire in India (2011). He is currently
working on two projects, one tracing the history of the colonial corporation
and another that explores problems in legal geography in the early modern
British Empire.
Schedule: Fridays, 1:00–4:30 p.m., 1 February through 12 April 2019,
excluding 15 March and 22 March.
Apply: 4 September 2018 for admission and
grants-in-aid; 7 January 2019 for admission only.
More information
here
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