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Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age is an interdisciplinary introduction to cross-cultural encounters in the early modern age (1400–1800) and their influences on the development of world societies. In the aftermath of Mongol expansion across Eurasia, the unprecedented rise of imperial states in the early modern period set in motion interactions between people from around the world. These included new commercial networks, large-scale migration streams, global biological exchanges, and transfers of knowledge across oceans and continents. These in turn wove together the major regions of the world. In an age of extensive cultural, political, military, and economic contact, a host of individuals, companies, tribes, states, and empires were in competition. Yet they also cooperated with one another, leading ultimately to the integration of global space

A cross-cultural analysis of the management of religious pluralism in the early modern era can serve to contextualize and relativize our understanding of toleration in the Western world. To that end, this article compares policies and practices employed by governments in the Protestant Dutch Republic concerning Roman Catholics with those used by Sunni Ottoman authorities toward Christians, Jews, and Shi'ites in Arabic-speaking provinces. Despite important differences in approach, authorities in both societies managed their pluralistic environments by marginalizing minorities in various ways. Their practice served to protect the public religious order while also according minorities the privilege of private worship.

'Ramus and Reform: University and Church at the End of the Renaissance' by James Veazie Skalnik is reviewed.

'Liberty and Religion: Church and State in Leiden's Reformation, 1572-1620' by Christine Kooi is reviewed.

'Liberty and Religion: Church and State in Leiden's Reformation, 1572-1620' by Christine Kooi is reviewed.

Individual and community in the early modern world / Charles H. Parker -- Early modern Europe and the early modern world / Jerry Bentley -- German burghers and peasants in the Reformation and the peasants' war : partners or competitors? / Thomas A. Brady, Jr. -- A tale of two brothers : corporate identity and the revolt in the towns of Holland / Henk van Nierop -- Family and community in the Spanish world / Carla Rahn Phillips -- Individual and community among the medieval travelers to Asia / William D. Phillips Jr. -- Settle or return : migrant communities in Northern Europe, ca. 1600-1800 / Douglas Catterall -- Forcing the doors of heathendom : ethnography, violence and the Dutch East India Company / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Creating a littoral community : Muslim reformers in the early modern Indian Ocean world / Michael N. Pearson -- Custom, community, and the crown : lawyers and the reordering of French customary law / Marie Seong-Hak Kim -- The individual on trial in the sixteenth-century Netherlands : between tradition and modernity / Hugo de Schepper, translated by Elizabeth Bradbury Pollnow -- 'They have highly offended the community of God' : rituals of ecclesiastical discipline and pastoral membership in the community in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German parishes / Susan C. Karant-Nunn -- Embodying the Middle Ages, advancing modernity : religious women in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Europe and beyond / Ulrike Strasser -- The transitional role of Jacques Coeur in the fifteenth century / Kathryn L. Reyerson -- The individual merchant and the trading nation in sixteenth-century Antwerp / Donald J. Harreld -- Between profit and power : the Dutch East India Company and institutional early modernities in the "age of mercantilism" / Markus P.M. Vink