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Recent years have seen a surge of interest in early modern global trade and the kinds of interactions and exchanges that arose between Asia and Europe as a consequence. However, sometimes these investigations have tended to lose sight of the more quotidian diffusion of trade goods and objects and their impact on local communities, of the role played by the host of intermediaries who facilitated the process (such as apothecaries, artisans, missioner priests), and of the small but significant changes wrought on aspects of everyday life and sensibilities.
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Marjorie Trusted, “Survivors of a Shipwreck: Ivories from a Manila Galleon of 1601,” Hispanic Research Journal 14, no. 5 (October 2013): 446–62.
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Ibid.
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Gauvin Alexander Bailey , “Religious Orders and the Arts of Asia,” in Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia, ed. Dennis Carr (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2015), 94–95. Elsewhere, Bailey has called the hybridized works of art and architecture which emerged in the Iberian empires in Asia and Africa as “acculturative art”. See Gauvin Alexander Bailey , Art of Colonial Latin America (London: Phaidon Press, 2005), 367.
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Bailey, “Religious Orders and the Arts of Asia,” 94.
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Just two spectacular examples being the princely collections of the Medici in Florence, and the Habsburg kunstkammern in Prague. On the mania for collecting ‘indian’ artifacts, see Jessica Keating and Lia Markey, “‘Indian’ Objects in Medici and Austrian-Habsburg Inventories: A Case-Study of the Sixteenth Century Term,” Journal of History of Collections 23, no. 2 (2011): 283–300.
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Kristina Kleutghen, ed, “Explorations of Intra-Asian Artistic Exchange,” Journal 18 East-Southeast, no. 4 (Fall 2017) (published online); See also the respective essays by Tom Hoogervorst, “Tracing Maritime Connections Between Island Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean World,” and John Miksic, “Spheres of Ceramic Exchange in Southeast Asia , Ninth to Sixteenth Centuries,” in The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization, ed. Tamar Hodos (London: Routledge, 2016).
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Dana Leibsohn and Meha Priyadarshini, “Transpacific: Beyond Silk and Silver ,” Colonial Latin American Review 25, no. 1: 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2016.1180780.
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Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin, and Beatrice Joyeux-Prunel, eds., Circulations in the Global History of Art (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015), 3.
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Most recent works are Birgit Tremml-Werner, Spain, China, and Japan in Manila , 1571–1644: Local Comparisons, Global Connections (Amsterdam University Press, 2015); Arturo Giraldez, The Age of Trade: The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015). Also selected essays in A Primera Viagem Histórica da Globalização in Revista de Cultura, International Edition 17, January 2006 (Instituto Cultural de Macao).
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Dennis O. Flynn, Lionel Frost, and A. J. H. Latham, “Introduction,” in Pacific Centuries: Pacific and Pacific Rim History Since the Sixteenth Century (London and New York: Routledge, 1999), xxxiii.
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Serge Gruzinski, “Art History and Iberian Worldwide Diffusion: Westernization /Globalization/Americanization,” in Circulations in the Global History of Art, ed. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin, and Beatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Surrey: Ashgate, 2015), 48–49.
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Ibid.
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Ramón Gutiérrez and Graciela María Viñuales, “The Artistic and Architectural Legacy of the Jesuits in Spanish America” and Gauvin Alexander Bailey , “Jesuit Art and Architecture in Asia,” in The Jesuits and the Arts 1540–1773, ed. John W. O’Malley, S. J. Harris, and Gauvin Alexander Bailey (Philadelphia, St. Joseph’s University Press, 2005), 311–61.
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The scholarship on the Dutch trading empire is vast. Recent works include Jan J. B. Kuipers, De VOC: een multinational onder zeil, 1602–1799 (Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2014); Lodewijk Wagenaar, Aan de Overkant: ontmoetingen in dienst van de VOC en WIC 1600–1800 (Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2015); Robert Parthesius, Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia 1595–1660 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007); M. A. P. Meilink-Roelofsz, M. E. van Opstall, and G. J. Schutte, eds., Dutch Authors on Asian History (Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1988); Femme S. Gaastra, The Dutch East India Company: Expansion and Decline (Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2003); and Kees Zandvliet, The Dutch Encounter with Asia 1600–1950 (Zwolle: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and Waanders Publishers, 2002).
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Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Michael North, eds., Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014), 12–13.
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Reyes, R.A.G. (2019). Introduction. In: Reyes, R. (eds) Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57237-0_1
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