Germanica Pacifica – serie
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Karl Hanssen’s Samoan War Diaries, August 1914-May 1915
A German Perspective on New Zealand’s Military Occupation of German Samoa- With the Assistance of James Braund, Alexandra Jespersen, and Nicola Pienaar
Inbunden, 2011
1473 kr
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With the arrival of 1,400 New Zealand troops in Apia at the beginning of World War I, the government of Samoa was transformed peacefully from a German «protectorate» to a New Zealand military administration. The New Zealand administrator, Colonel Robert Logan, who now found himself in charge of not …
Race Question in Oceania
A. B. Meyer and Otto Finsch between metropolitan theory and field experience, 1865–1914
Av Hilary Howes
Inbunden, 2013
1001 kr
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In 1873 the German naturalist A.B. Meyer spent five months in New Guinea. He had expected «bloodthirsty and untamed savages» and was amazed to find «men of milder customs». His compatriot Otto Finsch returned from a voyage through Hawaii, Micronesia, New Zealand and Torres Strait declaring …
Germans in Tonga
Inbunden, 2014
622 kr
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Germans in Tonga is the culmination of an eight-year research project in which the author and his team of researchers gathered biographical material on Germans in Tonga. There are four main sources: the British Consul Tonga files, held in the Western Pacific Archives of the University of Auckland …
Karl Hanssen’s Memoirs of his Wartime Experiences in Samoa and New Zealand 1915–1916
Inbunden, 2016
803 kr
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Karl Hanssen’s memoirs provide an invaluable outsider’s view of life in New Zealand prisons and a unique perspective on German Samoa under New Zealand occupation. In October 1915, Hanssen, manager of the DHPG, a large German copra production company, was sent from Samoa to New Zealand to serve a …
Swiss Settlers in New Zealand
A history of Swiss immigration to New Zealand
Inbunden, 2018
1079 kr
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The book presents the first comprehensive history of Swiss settlement in New Zealand. It describes Swiss settlement in New Zealand from the time of the gold rushes in the 1860s to the present day in a very accessible way. The focus is on the Swiss-born migrants: who they were, why they came, how …
Frida Peemueller’s Memoirs of German Samoa 1910-1920
Inbunden, 2022
637 kr
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This volume is an annotated edition of Frida Peemüller’s memoirs of her time in German Samoa from 1910 to 1920. In her memoirs Frida Peemüller gives us a unique insight into what was happening in Samoa under the last years of the German administration, under New Zealand occupation during World War …
Looking after One’s Own
The Rise of Nationalism and the Politics of the Neuendettelsauer Mission in Australia, New Guinea and Germany (1921–1933)
Av Christine Winter, James Bade
Inbunden, 2012
531 kr
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Looking after One’s Own is a political history of a German mission society during the last years of the Weimar Republic. It investigates the gradual engagement of the Neuendettelsauer Lutherans in Bavaria with National Socialism, and the tensions between this development and the restructuring of …
