Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Ea

by Stuart B. Schwartz

2021-01-01 01:50:17

This volume brings together the work of twenty scholars who have tried to examine the nature of the encounter between Europeans and the other peoples of the world from roughly 1450 to 1800, the Early Modern era. This volume is world-wide in scope bu... Read more
This volume brings together the work of twenty scholars who have tried to examine the nature of the encounter between Europeans and the other peoples of the world from roughly 1450 to 1800, the Early Modern era. This volume is world-wide in scope but is unified by the central underlying theme that implicit understandings influence every culture''s ideas about itself and others. These understandings, however, are changed by experience in a constantly shifting process in which both sides participate, and that makes such encounters complex historical events and moments of discovery. Less

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File size9.21 X 6.14 X 1.3 in
Print pages656
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date November 25, 1994
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521458801
Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History and chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. His many books include All Can Be Saved: Religious...

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