Explorations and Entanglements

Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78920-028-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 638 g

Reihe: Studies in German History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berghoff, Hartmut

Biess, Frank

Strasser, Ulrike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Biess, Frank
Frank Biess is Professor of Modern European History at the University of California-San Diego. His main areas of expertise are twentieth-century German history, the history of emotions, the history of wars and violence and their aftermaths, and transnational history.

Strasser, Ulrike
Ulrike Strasser is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of California-San Diego. Her research focuses on early modern Central European history, religious history, gender and sexuality, early modern world history, and history and theory.

Berghoff, Hartmut
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.

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.