Explorations and entanglements : Germans in Pacific Worlds from the early modern period to World War I /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2019.
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| Series: | Studies in German history ;
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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.