Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History)

Thirteen essays show worldwide perspectives of how early modern governments attempted to regulate religious life.

James Tracy teaches in the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War (Cambridge 2002) and The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and Global Trade, 1350-1750 (Cambridge, 1991). He is the editor of City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective (Cambridge, 2000) and of the Journal of Early Modern History.

Marguerite Ragnow is the Associate Director at the Center for Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota.