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)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 25, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 655
ISBN-13: 9780521452403
Subjects: World history: c 1500 to c 1750; Relations; General; Ethnopsychology; History; History - General History; Intercultural Communication; History: World; Asia - General; Europe - General; Europe--Relations--Foreign countries; History / World; World - General; Discoveries in geography; Europe; Foreign countries
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.