Implicit Understandings Schwartz Paperback Cambridge University Press

Implicit UnderstandingsObserving, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era\nAuthor(s): Stuart B. Schwartz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521458801, 978-0521458801\nSynopsis\nThis 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 complex historical events .