The magnificent boat : the colonial theft of a South Seas cultural treasure / Götz Aly ; translated by Jefferson Chase.

• 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"-- 

Ämnesord

Kulturföremål  (sao)

Fornminnesbrott  (sao)

Båtar  (sao)

Fornlämningar  (sao)

Cultural property  -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany. (LCSH)

Cultural property  -- Destruction and pillage -- Papua New Guinea. (LCSH)

Boats and boating  -- Papua New Guinea -- History. (LCSH)

Antiquities.  (fast)

Boats and boating.  (fast)

Cultural property  -- Destruction and pillage. (fast)

Cultural property  (LCSH)

Antiquities  (LCSH)

Cultural property—Destruction and pillage  (LCSH)

Boats and boating  (LCSH)

Papua Nya Guinea  (sao)

Tyskland  (sao)

Papua New Guinea  -- Antiquities. (LCSH)

Germany.  (fast)

Papua New Guinea.  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Institutionsnamn

Luf-Boot (Boat)

Klassifikation

DU740.3 (LCC)

995.3 (DDC)

Krda (kssb/8 (machine generated))