Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400-1800

Charles Parker is Professor of History at St Louis University. He has published extensively on the religious and cultural history of early modern Europe, with a focus on the Low Countries. His books include Faith on the Margins: Catholics and Catholicism in the Dutch Golden Age (2008), The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572–1620 (2006), and a co-edited volume, From the Middle Ages to Modernity: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World (2008). His articles and essays have appeared in the Journal of World History, The Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, the Journal of Religious History, and the Journal of Early Modern History.

• Introduction: the global integration of space; 1. European states and overseas empires; 2. Asian states and territorial empires; 3. International markets and global exchange networks; 4. The movement of peoples and diffusion of cultures; 5. The formation of new demographic and ecological structures; 6. The transmission of religion and culture; Conclusion: the landscapes of an altered world.

'Provides an interesting discussion of trade, migration, disease and religion, bringing together and summarising existing knowledge, for example of maps. It works as the introductory text it is designed to be.' History Today