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 research into…mehr
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 research into German missionary, commercial, scientific, and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific's overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.
Hartmut Berghoff is Director of the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen in Germany. From 2008 to 2015, he was the director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. He specializes in the histories of consumption, business, immigration, and modern Germany.
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List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: German Histories and Pacific Histories Ulrike Strasser, Frank Biess, and Hartmut Berghoff PART I: MISSIONARIES, EXPLORERS, AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER Chapter 1. German Apothecaries and Botanists in Early Modern Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan Raquel A. G. Reyes Chapter 2. A Bohemian Mapmaker in Manila: Travels, Transfers, and Traces between the Pacific Ocean and Germans Lands Ulrike Strasser Chapter 3. German Naturalists in the Pacific Around 1800: Entanglement, Autonomy, and a Transnational Culture of Expertise Andreas W. Daum Chapter 4. Georg Wilhelm Steller and Carl Heinrich Merck: German Scientists in Russian Service as Explorers in the North Pacific in the Eighteenth Century Kristina Küntzel-Witt Chapter 5. Johann Reinhold Forster and the Ship Resolution as a Space of Knowledge Production Anne Mariss Chapter 6. Engineering Empire: German Influence on Chinese Industrialization, 1880-1925 Shellen Wu PART II: EXPANSION, ENTANGLEMENTS, AND COLONIALISM IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY Chapter 7. Expanding the Frontier(s): The Spreckels Family and the German-American Penetration of the Pacific, 1870-1920 Uwe Spiekermann Chapter 8. Work and Non-Work in the "Paradise of the South Sea": Samoa, cA. 1890-1914 Jürgen Schmidt Chapter 9. German Women in the South Sea Colonies, 1884-1919 Livia Maria Rigotti Chapter 10. Sacrifice, Heroism, Professionalization and Empowerment: Colonial New Guinea in the Lives of German Religious Women, 1899-1919 Katharina Stornig Chapter 11. Rape, Indenture, and the Colonial Courts in German New Guinea Emma Thomas Chapter 12. The Trans-Pacific "Ghadar" Movement: The Role of the Pacific in the Indo-German Plot to Overthrow the British Empire during World War I Douglas T. McGetchin Chapter 13. 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 Index
List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: German Histories and Pacific Histories Ulrike Strasser, Frank Biess, and Hartmut Berghoff PART I: MISSIONARIES, EXPLORERS, AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER Chapter 1. German Apothecaries and Botanists in Early Modern Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan Raquel A. G. Reyes Chapter 2. A Bohemian Mapmaker in Manila: Travels, Transfers, and Traces between the Pacific Ocean and Germans Lands Ulrike Strasser Chapter 3. German Naturalists in the Pacific Around 1800: Entanglement, Autonomy, and a Transnational Culture of Expertise Andreas W. Daum Chapter 4. Georg Wilhelm Steller and Carl Heinrich Merck: German Scientists in Russian Service as Explorers in the North Pacific in the Eighteenth Century Kristina Küntzel-Witt Chapter 5. Johann Reinhold Forster and the Ship Resolution as a Space of Knowledge Production Anne Mariss Chapter 6. Engineering Empire: German Influence on Chinese Industrialization, 1880-1925 Shellen Wu PART II: EXPANSION, ENTANGLEMENTS, AND COLONIALISM IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY Chapter 7. Expanding the Frontier(s): The Spreckels Family and the German-American Penetration of the Pacific, 1870-1920 Uwe Spiekermann Chapter 8. Work and Non-Work in the "Paradise of the South Sea": Samoa, cA. 1890-1914 Jürgen Schmidt Chapter 9. German Women in the South Sea Colonies, 1884-1919 Livia Maria Rigotti Chapter 10. Sacrifice, Heroism, Professionalization and Empowerment: Colonial New Guinea in the Lives of German Religious Women, 1899-1919 Katharina Stornig Chapter 11. Rape, Indenture, and the Colonial Courts in German New Guinea Emma Thomas Chapter 12. The Trans-Pacific "Ghadar" Movement: The Role of the Pacific in the Indo-German Plot to Overthrow the British Empire during World War I Douglas T. McGetchin Chapter 13. 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 Index
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