Available Now: Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, And Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898)

Ayala Museum is pleased to announce that the book, Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898), is now available for purchase on our online MuseumShop!

Jointly published by the Ayala Foundation, Inc., the Getty Research Institute in the US, and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Italy, this book is a follow up to the 2014 international symposium Transpacific Engagements: Visual Culture of Global Exchange held in Ayala Museum. The book will feature new essays and research on the topic of global culture and economic exchange between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, when competing European empires vied for commercial and political control of global trade networks, particularly the transpacific routes between Asia and the Americas.

The essays in Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898) address the resulting cultural and artistic exchanges with an emphasis on both the Spanish and American enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region. While most of the essays show this through the Philippine experience, we see how other parts of the world, notably South and Southeast Asia and Europe, were also participants impacted by these transpacific linkages. The goal is to convey the complexity of entangled networks of commercial, political, and religious interests that complicate the Spanish enterprise in the Pacific. The global reach of the volume is also reflected in the fact that the contributors are based in Asia, the Americas, and Europe.

With essays by:

Vicente L. Rafael, Ricardo Pardon, Sean Nelson, Jose Antonio Cervera, Esteban Garcia Brosseau, Marco Musillo, Regalado Trota Jose, Patrick D. Flores, Felice Prudente Sta. Maria, Fernando N. Zialcita, Meha Priyadarshini, Sandra Castro, Elena Phipps, Ana Ruiz Gutierrez, Esperanza Bunag Gatbonton, Catroline Frank, Yinghe Jiang, Benito S. Legarda, Jr., Florina H. Capistrano-Baker, Dana Leibsohn.

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For a preview of Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898), you can view select pages through Google Books: here.