Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction: German Histories and Pacific Histories 1
6. Part I. Missionaries, Explorers, and Knowledge Transfer
7. 1. German Apothecaries and Botanists in Early Modern Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan 33
8. 2. A Bohemian Mapmaker in Manila: Travels, Transfers, and Traces between the Pacific Ocean and Germans Lands 55
9. 3. German Naturalists in the Pacific around 1800: Entanglement, Autonomy, and a Transnational Culture of Expertise 79
10. 4. Georg Wilhelm Steller and Carl Heinrich Merck: German Scientists in Russian Service as Explorers in the North Pacific in the Eighteenth Century 103
11. 5. Johann Reinhold Forster and the Ship Resolution as a Space of Knowledge Production 127
12. 6. Engineering Empire: German Influence on Chinese Industrialization, 1880–1925 153
13. Part II. Expansion, Entanglements, and Colonialism in the Long Nineteenth Century
14. 7. Expanding the Frontier(s): The Spreckels Family and the German- American Penetration of the Pacific, 1870–1920 169
15. 8. Work and Non-work in the “Paradise of the South Sea”: Samoa, ca. 1890–1914 195
16. 9. German Women in the South Sea Colonies, 1884–1919 213
17. 10. Sacrifice, Heroism, Professionalization, and Empowerment: Colonial New Guinea in the Lives of German Religious Women, 1899–1919 237
18. 11. Rape, Indenture, and the Colonial Courts in German New Guinea 255
19. 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 277
20. 13. The Vava’u Germans: History and Identity Construction of a Transcultural Community with Tongan and Pomeranian Roots 292
21. Epilogue. German Histories and Pacific Histories: New Directions 309
22. Index 313