Explorations and Entanglements (eBook)

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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