Explorations and Entanglements: Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I

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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. Explorations and Entanglements Copyright Page Contents \þ\ÿ \þ\ÿ \þ\ÿ Part I. Missionaries, Explorers, and Knowledge Transfer Chapter 1. German Apothecaries and Botanists in Early Modern Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan Chapter 2. A Bohemian Mapmaker in Manila Chapter 3. German Naturalists in the Pacific around 1800 \þ\ÿ Chapter 5. Johann Reinhold Forster and the Ship Resolution as a Space of Knowledge Production Chapter 6. Engineering Empire \þ\ÿ Chapter 7. Expanding the Frontier(s) \þ\ÿ \þ\ÿ \þ\ÿ \þ\ÿ Chapter 12. The Trans-Pacific \“Ghadar\” Movement Chapter 13. The Vava\’u Germans Epilogue. German Histories and Pacific Histories \þ\ÿ