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  title info:
    title: Explorations and entanglements
    sub title: Germans in Pacific worlds from the early modern period to World War I
  name:
    name part: Berghoff, Hartmut
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Biess, Frank
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Strasser, Ulrike
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history. Its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing transoceanic networks and cultural encounters, it is now possible to develop a more nuanced understanding of the history of Germans in the Pacific. The studies gathered here offer fascinating case studies of German missionary, commercial, scientific and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific's overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.
  table of contents: Introduction: German histories and Pacific histories / Hartmut Berghoff, Frank Biess, and Ulrike Strasser -- German apothecaries and botanists in early modern Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan / Raquel A. G. Reyes -- A Bohemian mapmaker in Manila: travels, transfers, and traces between the Pacific Ocean and Germans lands / Ulrike Strasser -- German naturalists in the Pacific around 1800: entanglement, autonomy, and a transnational culture of expertise / Andreas W. Daum -- Georg Wilhelm Steller and Carl Heinrich Merck: German scientists in Russian service as explorers in the north Pacific in the eighteenth century / Kristina Kuntzel-Witt -- Johann Reinhold Forster and the ship "resolution" as a space of knowledge -- Engineering empire: German influence on Chinese industrialization, 1880-1925 / Shellen Wu -- Expanding the frontier(s): the Spreckels family and the German-American penetration of the Pacific, 1870-1920 / Uwe Spiekermann -- Work and non-work in the "Paradise of the South Seas": Samoa, c. 1890-1914 / Jurgen Schmidt -- German women in the South Sea colonies, 1884-1919 / Livia Maria Rigotti -- Sacrifice, heroism, professionalization and empowerment: colonial New Guinea in the lives of German religious women, 1899-1919 / Katharina Stornig -- Rape, indenture, and the colonial courts in German New Guinea / Emma Thomas -- The trans-Pacific Ghadar (revolt) movement: the role of the pacific in the Indo-German plot to overthrow the British Empire during the first World War / Douglas T. McGetchin -- The Vava'u Germans: history and identity construction of a transcultural community with Tongan and Pomeranian roots / Reinhard Wendt -- Epilogue: German histories and Pacific histories: new directions / Matt Matsuda.
  note: edited by Hartmut Berghoff, Frank Biess and Ulrike Strasser.
  note: "Published in association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C."
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: p------
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    topic: Germans
    geographic: Pacific Area
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Pacific Area
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Pacific Area
  classification: DU28.1.G3 E97 2019
  classification: 995/.00431
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in German history ; v. 22
  identifier: 9781789200287
  identifier: 1789200288
  identifier: 9781789200294
  identifier: 2018026353
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180916
    record change date: 20190718161635.0
    record identifier: in00004001058