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
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.
"...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"
*American Historical Review*
“…in this compelling work of interdisciplinary scholarship. . .
.Mancini’s provocative challenges to conventional wisdom are well
worth reading.”
*Pacific Historical Review*
"...a remarkable work that provides a detailed examination and
analysis of a little-studied aspect of trans-Pacific history. . .
.With the rise of the Pacific World as a viable subfield for both
research and pedagogy, this book should be in high demand across
multiple disciplines."
*Global Maritime History*
“In this lavishly illustrated book, Mancini provides a rich
multidimensional account of the role of war in the movements of
objects and ideas in and beyond the Pacific Basin, as well as the
impact of violent conflicts spilling over from other world regions
to affect the arts and architecture in places like the Philippines
and California. As such, the book offers a much wider perspective
on the material culture of empire and war than the term 'art' in
the title may suggest at first sight.…This is an important read for
historians of the early modern and modern Pacific world, as well as
for scholars working on the material cultures of the empires
involved in the region.”
*The Americas*
"Art and War in the Pacific World makes valuable interventions
in the study of the Pacific. . . . Mancini’s approach is a useful
model for historians and art historians writing about the exchanges
that influenced the movement and appearance of ‘art, artifacts, and
architecture’ within and outside the region. By placing the
Philippines at the centre of imperial conflict, Mancini has set the
stage for future studies of the trans-Pacific world within a
colonial context."
*Journal of Pacific History*
"Through its temporal, geographic, and maritime expansions, the
book successfully articulates the limits of the spatial and
scholarly borders that define American history and material culture
studies. Art and War in the Pacific World demonstrates
that the geographic boundaries of colonies, nations, and continents
that determine the divisions of our fields are largely of scholarly
making. Examining the far more complicated worlds of early modern
and modern actors in the Pacific Americas brings provocative new
questions to light."
*Winterthur Portfolio*
"Mancini expertly highlights the entwined nature of art and war
through examining how the spoils of war are valued and circulate
into private hands, how artwork from the Philippines made its way
to California missions, and the impact that warfare can have on
city planning and architecture."
*The Journal of American History*
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