Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History)

Schwartz, S. B.

ISBN 10: 0521458803 / ISBN 13: 9780521458801

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1996

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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:9780521458801. Seller Inventory # 5804692

Bibliographic Details

Title: Implicit Understandings: Observing, ...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fair

About this title

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