The essays in Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898) address the cultural and artistic exchanges along the transpacific routes between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. While the focus is on the specific connection between the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas through the Philippines, we see how other parts of the world, notably South and Southeast Asia and Europe, were also participants impacted by these transpacific linkages. Contributors to this volume are based in Asia, the Americas, and Europe.

1. Commerce - Philippines - History - 1565-1898). 2. Philippines - Foreign economic relations - History - 1565-1898. 3. Cross cultural studies - Philippines - History. 4. Intercultural communications. 5. Southeast Asia - Foreign economic relations - History. 6. Arts and society. 7. Philippine essays (English).