Table of Contents
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
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