Magnificent Boat - The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure

Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of imperialism as the story of a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. Aly restores attention to colonial conquests and lays bare the vexed nature of ethnological appropriation.

About the author

Götz Aly is the author, most recently, of Europe Against the Jews, 1880–1945, as well as Hitler’s Beneficiaries; Why the Germans? Why the Jews?; and numerous other books. He has received the National Jewish Book Award, the Heinrich Mann Prize, the Ludwig Börne Prize, and the Geschwister Scholl Prize.

Summary

Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of imperialism as the story of a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. Aly restores attention to colonial conquests and lays bare the vexed nature of ethnological appropriation.

Product details

• Authors: Goetz Aly, Gotz Aly, Götz Aly, Jefferson Chase
• Assisted by: Jefferson Chase (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9780674276574
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27657-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, ART / Museum Studies, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, HISTORY / Oceania, maritime history, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies