The magnificent boat : the colonial theft of a South Seas cultural treasure / Götz Aly ; translated by Jefferson Chase.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023Description: viii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780674276574
- Colonial theft of a South Seas cultural treasure
- Prachtboot. English
- 995.3 23/eng/20220719
- DU740.3 .A5913 2023
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HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | R (Reference collection) | F:DU740.3 .A5913 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Hardcover | 2023-7412 |
Originally published in German as Das Prachtboot : wie Deutsche die Kunstschätze der Südsee raubten, Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer Verlag, 2021.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index.
The Scene of the Crime : German New Guinea -- With Pastor Aly's Blessings -- The Luf Boat as Museum Attraction -- The 1882 Luf Massacre -- "Bastian's Network" of Thieves -- Deception, Larceny, and Looting -- Curators, Crusaders, and Cannons -- Ethnology, Child of Colonialism -- The Luf Boat Comes to Berlin -- An Artifact of an Ancient Culture -- Islands Stripped Bare -- Where Does the Luf Boat Belong?
"Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"-- Provided by publisher.
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