Germany in the Pacific Area

Mühlhäusler, Peter (1996). "Germany in the Pacific Area". In Wurm, Stephen; Mühlhäusler, Peter; Tryon, Darrell (eds.). [DOI: 10.1515/9783110819724.2.345 Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas]. 2. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 345–352.

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Abstract: German influence in the Pacific dates from the early 1860s when the Samoan-based firm of Godeffroy and Sons established trading posts in many parts of Polynesia and Micronesia, Contacts were intensified and extended to parts of Melanesia (mainly the Solomons and the Bismarck Archipelago) in the 1870s. Following the establishment of the German Reich, a number of areas were subsequently annexed a s protectorates and colonies, including the Marshall Islands (1878), North Eastern New Guinea (Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land) and the Bismarck Archipelago (1884), the Marianas and the Carolines (1898), Kiautschou (1898) and Samoa (1899). German Government control in all these territories came to an end soon after the outbreak of World War I. German controlled missions continued to be influential in some areas, though few of them remained important after World War II.

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110819724.2.345
MAG: 2484214779
CorpusID: 132305284
OpenAlex: W2484214779