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Aly, Götz, 1947- author.
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Luf-Boot (Boat)
Cultural property -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany.
Cultural property -- Destruction and pillage -- Papua New Guinea.
Boats and boating -- Papua New Guinea -- History.
Papua New Guinea -- Antiquities.
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The magnificent boat...
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The magnificent boat : the colonial theft of a South Seas cultural treasure / Götz Aly ; translated by Jefferson Chase.
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Aly, Götz, 1947- author.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023.
Subjects
Luf-Boot (Boat)
Cultural property -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany.
Cultural property -- Destruction and pillage -- Papua New Guinea.
Boats and boating -- Papua New Guinea -- History.
Papua New Guinea -- Antiquities.
ISBN:
9780674276574 (hardcover) :
0674276574 (hardcover)
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viii, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Contents:
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?
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"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"--
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