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

"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