Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565-1898), paperback

$45.00 at The Getty Museum.

Edited by Florina H. Capistrano-Baker and Meha Priyadarshini This wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific region in the age of imperialism. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, competing European empires vied for commercial and political control of oceanic routes between Asia and the Americas. Transpacific Engagements addresses the resulting cultural and artistic exchanges with an emphasis on the…