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This book weds two research themes that have animated my academic work throughout my career thus far: the Reformation in Europe and global interconnections in the early modern period. As a graduate student, I wrote a master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation on topics pertaining to the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Calvinism. When, in the 1980s, I matriculated into the graduate program at the University of Minnesota to study the Reformation, I also happened to stumble quite accidentally into comparative early modern history just as the discipline of world history was taking off. The Center for Early Modern History sponsored exciting conferences on merchant empires, implicit ethnographies, religious conflict and accommodation, as well as other global topics that captivated my imagination. But at the time, I could not imagine how to study the Reformation from a world history perspective. After much reading, listening, and talking with colleagues in the field, it occurred to me about fifteen years later that I could study Protestants and world history by following Dutch Calvinists as they went out in the global sea lanes into Asia, Africa, and America to convert “pagans,” “Moors,” Jews, and Catholics. Many mentors, colleagues, and friends whom I am pleased to acknowledge taught me a great deal in conceptualizing, researching, and writing this book, but none more so than my PhD adviser, Jim Tracy. His own work connects early modern European history to global interactions. But more importantly, Jim’s boundless curiosity, intellectual breadth, kind demeanor, and academic integrity have inspired me since I first met him in August 1987. Global Calvinism is dedicated to him.
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