Explorations and Entanglements : : Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I / / ed. by Hartmut Berghoff, Frank Biess, Ulrike Strasser.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Berghoff, Hartmut,; Biess, Frank,; Daum, Andreas W.,; Küntzel-Witt, Kristina,; Mariss, Anne,; Matsuda, Matt,; McGetchin, Douglas T.,; Reyes, Raquel A. G.,; Rigotti, Livia,; Schmidt, Jürgen,; Spiekermann, Uwe,; Stornig, Katharina,; Strasser, Ulrike,; Thomas, Emma,; Wendt, Reinhard,; Wu, Shellen,
• HerausgeberIn: Berghoff, Hartmut,; Biess, Frank,; Strasser, Ulrike,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in German History ; 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: German Histories and Pacific Histories -- Part I. Missionaries, Explorers, and Knowledge Transfer -- 1. German Apothecaries and Botanists in Early Modern Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan -- 2. A Bohemian Mapmaker in Manila: Travels, Transfers, and Traces between the Pacific Ocean and Germans Lands -- 3. German Naturalists in the Pacific around 1800: Entanglement, Autonomy, and a Transnational Culture of Expertise -- 4. Georg Wilhelm Steller and Carl Heinrich Merck: German Scientists in Russian Service as Explorers in the North Pacific in the Eighteenth Century -- 5. Johann Reinhold Forster and the Ship Resolution as a Space of Knowledge Production -- 6. Engineering Empire: German Influence on Chinese Industrialization, 1880–1925 -- Part II. Expansion, Entanglements, and Colonialism in the Long Nineteenth Century -- 7. Expanding the Frontier(s): The Spreckels Family and the German- American Penetration of the Pacific, 1870–1920 -- 8. Work and Non-work in the “Paradise of the South Sea”: Samoa, ca. 1890–1914 -- 9. German Women in the South Sea Colonies, 1884–1919 -- 10. Sacrifice, Heroism, Professionalization, and Empowerment: Colonial New Guinea in the Lives of German Religious Women, 1899–1919 -- 11. Rape, Indenture, and the Colonial Courts in German New Guinea -- 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 -- 13. The Vava’u Germans: History and Identity Construction of a Transcultural Community with Tongan and Pomeranian Roots -- Epilogue. German Histories and Pacific Histories: New Directions -- Index