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.

“Given the numerous and diverse case studies that the individual chapters examine, it is to the credit of the volume’s authors and editors that discrete themes are nonetheless clearly traceable throughout the work, the most interesting of these being the myriad and sometimes surprising ways in which Germany’s status as a relative ‘latecomer’ to nationhood and imperial expansion actually served not as a liability but rather as an advantage for German agents and interests.” • German History“The book contains a wealth of detailed microstudies in defined social and spatial Pacific settings... The strength of the book lies in each and every author‘s meticulous analysis of sources along a strong actor-centered approach. This allows to show local and intercultural, but also global network entanglements which make a strong base for historical reasoning… this is an excellent, well-researched book which can be unreservedly recommended.” • Connections“This volume represents a bold intervention in Pacific and German historiographies, one that encourages us to rethink central concepts and assumptions. All of its contributions are interesting, well-substantiated, and conversant with transnational developments in both fields.” • Rainer Buschmann, California State University Channel Islands

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: German Histories and Pacific HistoriesUlrike Strasser, Frank Biess, and Hartmut BerghoffPART I: MISSIONARIES, EXPLORERS, AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERChapter 1. German Apothecaries and Botanists in Early Modern Indonesia, the Philippines and JapanRaquel A. G. ReyesChapter 2. A Bohemian Mapmaker in Manila: Travels, Transfers, and Traces between the Pacific Ocean and Germans LandsUlrike StrasserChapter 3. German Naturalists in the Pacific Around 1800: Entanglement, Autonomy, and a Transnational Culture of ExpertiseAndreas W. DaumChapter 4. Georg Wilhelm Steller and Carl Heinrich Merck: German Scientists in Russian Service as Explorers in the North Pacific in the Eighteenth CenturyKristina Küntzel-WittChapter 5. Johann Reinhold Forster and the Ship Resolution as a Space of Knowledge ProductionAnne MarissChapter 6. Engineering Empire: German Influence on Chinese Industrialization, 1880–1925Shellen WuPART II: EXPANSION, ENTANGLEMENTS, AND COLONIALISM IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURYChapter 7. Expanding the Frontier(s): The Spreckels Family and the German-American Penetration of the Pacific, 1870–1920Uwe SpiekermannChapter 8. Work and Non-Work in the “Paradise of the South Sea”: Samoa, cA. 1890–1914Jürgen SchmidtChapter 9. German Women in the South Sea Colonies, 1884–1919Livia Maria RigottiChapter 10. Sacrifice, Heroism, Professionalization and Empowerment: Colonial New Guinea in the Lives of German Religious Women, 1899–1919Katharina StornigChapter 11. Rape, Indenture, and the Colonial Courts in German New GuineaEmma ThomasChapter 12. The Trans-Pacific "Ghadar" Movement: The Role of the Pacific in the Indo-German Plot to Overthrow the British Empire during World War IDouglas T. McGetchinChapter 13. The Vava’u Germans: History and Identity Construction of a Transcultural Community with Tongan and Pomeranian RootsReinhard WendtEpilogue: German Histories and Pacific Histories: New DirectionsMatt MatsudaIndex