This richly interdisciplinary book explores the transformative impacts of personal encounters in Oceania on German understandings of human difference.  Meer

Visiting scientists from German-speaking Europe made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of scientific knowledge about New Zealand in period prior to 1900.  Meer

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.  Meer

And How Do You Like This Country?  Meer

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).  Meer

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.  Meer

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.  Meer

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.  Meer

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.  Meer

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.  Meer

Frida Peemüller’s memoirs of her time in German Samoa from 1910 to 1920 give us a unique insight into life in Samoa under the last years of the German administration and under New Zealand occupation during World War I.  Meer

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.  Meer

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.  Meer