Twenty-five articles in two volumes concentrating on the complex interaction of societies and cultures initially alien to one another. Conflict was an obvious interaction, but accommodation, mutual adaptation, and institutional and behavioural synthesis w
Volume 1 A. The longue duree: Portuguese and Chinese maritime imperialism - Camoess Lusiads and Luo Maodengs Voyage of the San Bao eunuch, Robert Finlay; feudalism, capitalism, and the world-system in the perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean, St