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The Pacific world has long been recognized as a hub for the global trade in art objects, but the history of art and architecture has seldom reckoned with another profound aspect of the region’s history: its exposure to global conflict during the British and US imperial incursions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Art and War in the Pacific World provides a new view of the Pacific world and of global artistic interaction by exploring how the making, alteration, looting, and destruction of images, objects, buildings, and landscapes intersected with the exercise of force. Focusing on the period from Commodore George Anson’s voyage to the Philippine-American War, J. M. Mancini’s exceptional study deftly weaves together disparate strands of history to create a novel paradigm for cultural analysis.
Price: $65.00
Pages: 344
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
30 March 2018
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9780520294516
Format: Hardcover
"...essential reading for scholars interested in the global interchange of art, objects, and architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . . . . Mancini’s book is a critical study that offers a welcome reassessment of the chronology of empire in the Pacific. Moreover, Mancini provides an account of the integral role that vision, visuality, and objects played in this important history. . . . [it] should be included in any classroom that dives into a discussion of Asia’s interrelationship with the West during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries"
J. M. Mancini is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Maynooth University, Ireland. Her publications include Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show and Architecture and Armed Conflict, edited with Keith Bresnahan.
List of Illustrations • ix
Chronology • xvii
Introduction • 1
PART I. PACIFIC TURNS: ANGLO-SPANISH CONFLICT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
1. Surplus Transfer • 27
2. Composite Empire • 67
3. Transpacific Angles of Vision • 107
PART II. A PACIFIC RETURN: THE UNITED STATES, WAR, AND EMPIRE IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898–1910
4. War, the Crucible of Art • 147
5. Sovereignty Trouble • 178
6. Destructive Creation • 211
Conclusion • 239
Acknowledgments • 241
Notes • 243
Bibliography • 287
Index • 301
Chronology • xvii
Introduction • 1
PART I. PACIFIC TURNS: ANGLO-SPANISH CONFLICT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
1. Surplus Transfer • 27
2. Composite Empire • 67
3. Transpacific Angles of Vision • 107
PART II. A PACIFIC RETURN: THE UNITED STATES, WAR, AND EMPIRE IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898–1910
4. War, the Crucible of Art • 147
5. Sovereignty Trouble • 178
6. Destructive Creation • 211
Conclusion • 239
Acknowledgments • 241
Notes • 243
Bibliography • 287
Index • 301