2020, ISBN: 9783447114929

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: Harrassowitz Verlag], The Independent State of Samoa, Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republics of the Marshall Islands, of Nauru and of Pal… Mehr…

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: Harrassowitz Verlag], The Independent State of Samoa, Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republics of the Marshall Islands, of Nauru and of Palau, the US Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas and parts of the Solomon Islands share a colonial legacy: all had been under German colonial rule before World War One. At the time Germany's Pacific empire was second only to Great Britain. In the beginning, German colonialism in the Pacific looked like a state-sponsored economic enterprise. Big trading companies were running the actual colonial administration of what was officially termed "Protectorates", not colonies. The result was devastating, a human, moral and also economic catastrophe. Just before the turn of the century, the German government intervened, and the so-called "Protectorates" became real colonies, one after the other. Prestige purposes played a significant role in German colonialism. There were just 1,523 Germans scattered over their vast Pacific empire in 1914, less..., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 284, [GW: 684g], Banküberweisung, PayPal, Klarna-Sofortüberweisung<

2020, ISBN: 9783447114929

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: Harrassowitz Verlag], The Independent State of Samoa, Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republics of the Marshall Islands, of Nauru and of Pal… Mehr…

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: Harrassowitz Verlag], The Independent State of Samoa, Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republics of the Marshall Islands, of Nauru and of Palau, the US Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas and parts of the Solomon Islands share a colonial legacy: all had been under German colonial rule before World War One. At the time Germany's Pacific empire was second only to Great Britain. In the beginning, German colonialism in the Pacific looked like a state-sponsored economic enterprise. Big trading companies were running the actual colonial administration of what was officially termed "Protectorates", not colonies. The result was devastating, a human, moral and also economic catastrophe. Just before the turn of the century, the German government intervened, and the so-called "Protectorates" became real colonies, one after the other. Prestige purposes played a significant role in German colonialism. There were just 1,523 Germans scattered over their vast Pacific empire in 1914, less..., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 284, [GW: 684g], Banküberweisung, PayPal, Klarna-Sofortüberweisung<

2020, ISBN: 9783447114929

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: Harrassowitz Verlag], The Independent State of Samoa, Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republics of the Marshall Islands, of Nauru and of Pal… Mehr…

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: Harrassowitz Verlag], The Independent State of Samoa, Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republics of the Marshall Islands, of Nauru and of Palau, the US Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas and parts of the Solomon Islands share a colonial legacy: all had been under German colonial rule before World War One. At the time Germany's Pacific empire was second only to Great Britain. In the beginning, German colonialism in the Pacific looked like a state-sponsored economic enterprise. Big trading companies were running the actual colonial administration of what was officially termed "Protectorates", not colonies. The result was devastating, a human, moral and also economic catastrophe. Just before the turn of the century, the German government intervened, and the so-called "Protectorates" became real colonies, one after the other. Prestige purposes played a significant role in German colonialism. There were just 1,523 Germans scattered over their vast Pacific empire in 1914, less..., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 284, [GW: 684g], Banküberweisung, PayPal, Sofortüberweisung<