Implicit Understandings
Subtitle: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 25, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 655
ISBN-13: 9780521458801
Subjects: World history: c 1500 to c 1750; Intercultural communication; Foreign countries; Europe; History; History - General History; History: World; East Asia, Far East; General; Asia - General; Europe - General; Europe--Relations--Foreign countries; History / Europe / General; History / World; History-Asia - General; Social Science-General; Relations; Ethnopsychology; Far East; Discoveries in geography
First sentence: ALTHOUGH the final significance of the discovery by the Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus of a series of islands previously unknown to Europeans in the western Atlantic during the autumn of 1492 is still a matter of dispute, there can be little doubt that this event proved to be a turning-point in the history both of the discoverers themselves and of the peoples whom they discovered.