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

Format	Paperback
ISBN	9780521458801
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press

This book is a compilation of essays that explore the nature of the encounter between Europeans and other peoples during the Early Modern era. The essays are unified by the central theme that implicit understandings play a role in shaping every culture's ideas about itself and others. These understandings are changed by experience, and this makes such encounters complex historical events and moments of discovery.

This volume brings together the work of twenty 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. This volume is world-wide in scope 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, and that makes such encounters complex historical events and moments of discovery.