Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521458803
• ISBN13: 9780521458801
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"