Fa'a Siamani : Germany in Micronesia, New Guinea and Samoa 1884-1914.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hiery, Hermann.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies.

History.

Germany--Colonies--History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Map 1

The Pacific

Title Pages

Contents

Figures and Tables

Preface

1 The Pacific, the Germans, and the German Reich

Economic Value

Military-Strategic Value

The Significance of the South Pacific and Images of its Inhabitants from the Point of View of German Foreign Policy

Pacific Influences on the Germans

2 Culture Contact and German Influence in Germany's South Pacific Colonies

Nature and Environment

Values and World Views

The Legal System

Indigenous Ideas of Law and 'Justice' before the Arrival of the Europeans

German Legal Practice in Pacific Societies

The Social Order and Relations between the Generations

Way of Life and Language

Education, Training, and Public Health

Relations between the Sexes and Attitudes towards Sexuality

Infrastructure, Traffic, and Communication

The Economy and Trade

Nation-Building, National Consciousness, and Ideas of the State. Relations with other Ethnicities

3 Manipulating or Manipulated Europeans? Indigenous Actions and Reactions between Resistance, Adaptation and Cultural Symbiosis

The Cultures of New Guinea

Micronesian Societies

Samoa

Abbreviations

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index of names and places

Map 2

German New Guinea

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN:

9783447390378

3447390379

Publisher Number:

99987125264

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.