Books in the Germanica Pacifica series

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.

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. This edition provides an insight into the experience of World War I in the South Pacific.

Elisabet Delbrueck (1876-1967) was one of a number of Germans who came to New Zealand in the late 1930s. Unlike most, she had not intended to emigrate but was touring the country when World War II broke out. This study explores her early life, her marriage into a prominent German family and her qualification as an artist.

Aims through the examination of individuals and groups in Oceania who were targeted for potential subversion or believed to hold National Socialist sympathies (including local National Socialists, Italian-Australians, Russian exiles). This book examines a variety of motives for embracing National Socialism and investing hope in the Third Reich.

And How Do You Like This Country?

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 the Lutheran mission fields in New Guinea between 1929 and the early 1930s.

Visiting scientists from German-speaking Europe made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of scientific knowledge about New Zealand in period prior to 1900. This title examines various aspects of German-speaking scientific connection with New Zealand, with a particular emphasis on Hochstetter and the visit of the Novara to New Zealand.

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.