CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
Essays on diverse cultures now and in the past

Edited by Robert Cecil and David Wade

Octagon Press, London, 1980

In all ages, there have been tribes, races, states or nations which have interrelated with trade, treaties and, all too often, war. But not until the mid-16th century did dominating groups assume that success on the battlefield meant superiority of culture.

As a result, certain cultural patterns and outlooks have dominated at the expense of others -- for example, the Judeo-Christian view of history as a linear, uni-directional process, over the cyclical view held by many other cultures.

This landmark collection of essays and lectures explores key encounters in many times and places, including Constantinople and Baghdad through the middle ages, the British in India, and present-day situations in China, Columbia and Malaysia.

Contributors include Martin Holdgate, Eugene Grebenick, Alexander King, G.M. Carstairs, and Peter Brent.