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    Explorations and entanglements : Germans in Pacific Worlds from the early modern period to World War I /

    Published 2019
    Table of Contents: “…Daum -- Georg Wilhelm Steller and Carl Heinrich Merck: German scientists in Russian service as explorers in the north Pacific in the eighteenth century / Kristina Kuntzel-Witt -- Johann Reinhold Forster and the ship "resolution" as a space of knowledge -- Engineering empire: German influence on Chinese industrialization, 1880-1925 / Shellen Wu -- Expanding the frontier(s): the Spreckels family and the German-American penetration of the Pacific, 1870-1920 / Uwe Spiekermann -- Work and non-work in the "Paradise of the South Seas": Samoa, c. 1890-1914 / Jurgen Schmidt -- German women in the South Sea colonies, 1884-1919 / Livia Maria Rigotti -- Sacrifice, heroism, professionalization and empowerment: colonial New Guinea in the lives of German religious women, 1899-1919 / Katharina Stornig -- Rape, indenture, and the colonial courts in German New Guinea / Emma Thomas -- The trans-Pacific Ghadar (revolt) movement: the role of the pacific in the Indo-German plot to overthrow the British Empire during the first World War / Douglas T. …”
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