Bücher der Reihe Germanica Pacifica

Karl Hanssen's memoirs of New Zealand-occupied German Samoa and his imprisonment for bypassing war censorship regulations provide a unique perspective on German Samoa and life in New Zealand prisons. This edition also features Hanssen's photos and an introduction on the historical and political background.

This richly interdisciplinary book explores the transformative impacts of personal encounters in Oceania on German understandings of human difference. Through detailed analyses of the works of A.B. Meyer and Otto Finsch, it illuminates the difficult relationship between field experience and metropolitan science in late nineteenth-century Europe.

This volume contains short biographies of over 350 Germans in Tonga born over a 110-year period between 1822 and 1932 and features an introduction on the historical background to the German connection with Tonga. It is the culmination of an eight-year research project examining archival files in New Zealand, Tonga and Germany.

The question of how Germanness could be defined was at core of German political and social debate long before Germany's national formation, and only intensified following it. This book offers cultural study of Nazi ideology as it was presented to interwar Australian public, particularly its German-Australian population.

A collection of essays that considers the contribution made by German settlers in Queensland over the last century and a half of the state's history. It analyses the role of other German travellers and visitors who have had an impact on the state. It includes chapters on Germans in politics, science, music and the other arts.

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 focusing Swiss-born migrants.