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

Schwartz, Stuart B. edited by

ISBN 10: 0521458803 / ISBN 13: 9780521458801

Published by Cambridge University Press, New York, 1995

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6 x 8 7/8" 637 pages. contributors: Seymour Phillips, Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada, Peter Hulme, Wyatt MacGaffey, Mary W. Helms, Rolena Adorno, James A. Boon and others. Seller Inventory # 121841

Bibliographic Details

Title: Implicit Understandings Observing, Reporting...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: paperback

Condition: very good +

Edition: reprint.

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Synopsis:

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 complex historical events and moments of 'discovery'. The scholars gathered here grapple with the questions of how we observe, and how observation and representation can reveal as much about ourselves as about those we observe.

Review:

"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 the introduction) that hold together and constitute a single resource (as well as twenty separate ones)." William and Mary Quarterly