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Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era
Stuart B. Schwartz
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Description for Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era
Paperback. This volume examines encounters between Europeans and the other peoples of the world during the early modern era. Editor(s): Schwartz, Stuart B. Series: Studies in Comparative Early Modern History. Num Pages: 656 pages, 14 b/w illus. 4 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 986.
This volume brings together the work of twenty historians, anthropologists, and literary 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. The book is world-wide in scope - ranging from Hawaii, Australia, and China to the Americas and Africa - 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. This makes such encounters ... Read more
This volume brings together the work of twenty historians, anthropologists, and literary 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. The book is world-wide in scope - ranging from Hawaii, Australia, and China to the Americas and Africa - 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. This makes such encounters ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
656
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Comparative Early Modern History
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521458801
SKU
V9780521458801
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Reviews for Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era
"The range of subjects covered and the evident erudition of the authors are impressive." Sixteenth Century Journal "...each contributer illustrates important aspects about topic, methodology, and the evolution of the historians craft." Canadian Journal of History "Stuart B. Schwartz deserves congratulations for sccomplishing something difficult and rare; he has edited a book of twenty essays (including ... Read more