Explorations and Entanglements: Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I - Paperbackby Hartmut Berghoff (Editor), Frank Biess (Editor), Ulrike Strasser (Editor) Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field