Christian WindlerChristian Windler is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Bern (Switzerland). He specializes in the social and cultural history of diplomacy, religious practices, and global entanglements from the seventeenth to the nineteent century. His publications include La diplomatie comme expérience de l'Autre: Consuls français au Maghreb (1700-1840) (2002), a pioneering study in new diplomatic history. Since the early 2000s, he has broadened his interest in cultural intermediaries by focusing on missionaries as cultural brokers and "glocal" actors. He has been principal investigator on several externally funded projects in new diplomatic history and in the history of religious practices in Europe and beyond. Read More Read Less