Explorations and Entanglements

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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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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