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Spiritual Geopolitics in the Early Modern Imperial Age. An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

Susanne Lachenicht ,
Lauric Henneton  and
Yann Lignereux
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Global GeopoliticsImperial AgeReligionConfessional Age
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Itinerario , Volume 40 , Special Issue 2: Spiritual Geopolitics in the Early Modern World , August 2016 , pp. 181 - 187
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© 2016 Research Institute for History, Leiden University 

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Susanne Lachenicht is professor of Early Modern History at Bayreuth University, Germany. Her research focuses on press and media during the French Revolution and minorities in Europe and the Atlantic World. Lauric Henneton is associate professor of American history and politics at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin (France). He has published numerous articles on early New England and the Atlantic World, and recently coedited Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies with L.H. Roper (Brill, 2016). He co-founded and runs the Summer Academy of Atlantic History with Susanne Lachenicht. Yann Lignereux, agrégation d’histoire, is professor of early modern history at the University of Nantes, France. He is director of the UFR History, Art History and Archeology. He specializes in practices of government as well as political cultures and imaginaries in France and in Canada in the early modern period.

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