Europa e America allo specchio

Aiming and succeeding at being an all-encompassing companion to the early modern Catholic global missions, this collection of essays is a relevant and valuable book to help us better understand this theme in a holistic way.It does so by connecting the local with regional and global levels and by shifting the gaze from one center to the other: Europe, as one of the world centers, is focused in the last part of the book.Globalization is here considered as a plural phenomenon with multiple histories in itself, numerous levels, and different perspectives.There are, of course, more issues to address, namely the comparison between Protestant and Catholic missions, as Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia acknowledges at the end of his introduction.Apart from topics such as this, I would add the inclusion of the material and visual cultures of the Catholic missions in the early modern world, an approach that would indubitably illuminate their global dimension(s)

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