art history

and changing environmental conditions threaten significant historical sites throughout the world

The visionary power of the images in this book—combined with its resounding prose—create a commemorative anthology befitting this extraordinary year

Rosa Giorgi is an art historian specializing in iconography

encounters between art historians and anthropologists remain rare

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