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Magnificent Boat The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure

Aly, Götz
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780674276574
Publisert
2023-03-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Aly, Götz
Oversetter
Chase, Jefferson

Om bidragsyterne

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.

Magnificent Boat The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure

Aly, Götz
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk
Aly, Götz
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk
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A major contribution to the debate over whether and how to repatriate the countless objects and artworks acquired through dubious means that reside in the museums of former colonial powers…As an indictment of German colonial policies and leading scholars’ complicity in them, the book is unsparing and convincing.

- Joshua Keating, Washington Post

In his brief, powerful book, Aly tells a sweeping history of colonial exploitation by focusing on the story of the journey of a single boat from its birthplace in the 1890s on the island of Luf in the Bismarck Archipelago to Berlin’s Ethnologisches (Ethnological) Museum in 1903. Through the Luf Boat, now a centerpiece of the controversial new Humboldt Forum, Aly demonstrates the intimate relationship between the devastation wrought by markets and militaries and the curators who swooped in to ‘rescue’ the remnants of supposedly dying cultures.

- Erin L. Thompson, Los Angeles Review of Books

The book is not just about museum politics and shifting postcolonial meanings of non-western objects. Museum collections are a metaphor. They stand for a larger, unresolved debate about the moral contradictions facing postcolonial western societies whose contemporary prosperity is rooted in the pillaging of the peoples and cultures they once ruled. If the ethos of the moment stands on injustice, <i>The Magnificent Boat</i> makes an excellent contribution that exposes and reminds us of it.

- David Lipset, Times Literary Supplement

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Aly’s detailed account follows German ships as they arrive at Luf Island to punish the local population for an earlier fight with Germans, burning homes and forests, stealing food and clearing land for the coconut plantations where the remaining islanders were enslaved…He draws widely from official documents and accounts where Germans wrote openly about violence in the South Seas.

- David D’Arcy, The Art Newspaper

Concise and convincing, this damning account reveals the painful legacy of colonialism.

Publishers Weekly

Well written and full of disturbing detail—a new and much-needed perspective on an iconic museum object.

- Bénédicte Savoy, author of <i>Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat</i>,

A lot has been written recently about looted art, but there’s been less talk about much greater colonial crimes. Aly shows that there’s no separating the two.

- Jörg Häntzschel, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Aly’s entertainingly written and comprehensively researched study shows that the Luf Boat was by no means fairly acquired by the German Reich.

- Andreas Kilb, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Anyone who sees the so-called Luf Boat in the future will immediately have in mind the murderous cruelty of the Germans.

- Felix Bohr, Ulrike Knöfel, and Elke Schmitter, Der Spiegel

This is a harrowing book, in which readers will learn more about the everyday brutality of colonialism than in any postcolonial studies tract.

- Sebastian Preuss, Weltkunst Online

From an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific.Countless museums in the West have been criticized for their looted treasures, but few as trenchantly as the Humboldt Forum, which displays predominantly non-Western art and artifacts in a modern reconstruction of the former Royal Palace in Berlin. The Forum’s premier attraction, an ornately decorated fifteen-meter boat from the island of Luf in modern-day Papua New Guinea, was acquired under the most dubious circumstances by Max Thiel, a German trader, in 1902 after two decades of bloody German colonial expeditions in Oceania.Götz Aly tells the story of the German pillaging of Luf and surrounding islands, a campaign of violence in which Berlin ethnologists were brazenly complicit. In the aftermath, the majestic vessel was sold to the Ethnological Museum in the imperial capital, where it has remained ever since. In Aly’s vivid telling, the looted boat is a portal to a forgotten chapter in the history of empire—the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago. One of these islands was even called Aly, in honor of the author’s great-granduncle, Gottlob Johannes Aly, a naval chaplain who served aboard ships that helped subjugate the South Sea islands Germany colonized.While acknowledging the complexity of cultural ownership debates, Götz Aly boldly questions the legitimacy of allowing so many treasures from faraway, conquered places to remain located in the West. Through the story of one emblematic object, The Magnificent Boat artfully illuminates a sphere of colonial brutality of which too few are aware today.
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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.
Les mer
A major contribution to the debate over whether and how to repatriate the countless objects and artworks acquired through dubious means that reside in the museums of former colonial powers…As an indictment of German colonial policies and leading scholars’ complicity in them, the book is unsparing and convincing.
Les mer

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A major contribution to the debate over whether and how to repatriate the countless objects and artworks acquired through dubious means that reside in the museums of former colonial powers…As an indictment of German colonial policies and leading scholars’ complicity in them, the book is unsparing and convincing.

- Joshua Keating, Washington Post

In his brief, powerful book, Aly tells a sweeping history of colonial exploitation by focusing on the story of the journey of a single boat from its birthplace in the 1890s on the island of Luf in the Bismarck Archipelago to Berlin’s Ethnologisches (Ethnological) Museum in 1903. Through the Luf Boat, now a centerpiece of the controversial new Humboldt Forum, Aly demonstrates the intimate relationship between the devastation wrought by markets and militaries and the curators who swooped in to ‘rescue’ the remnants of supposedly dying cultures.

- Erin L. Thompson, Los Angeles Review of Books

The book is not just about museum politics and shifting postcolonial meanings of non-western objects. Museum collections are a metaphor. They stand for a larger, unresolved debate about the moral contradictions facing postcolonial western societies whose contemporary prosperity is rooted in the pillaging of the peoples and cultures they once ruled. If the ethos of the moment stands on injustice, <i>The Magnificent Boat</i> makes an excellent contribution that exposes and reminds us of it.

- David Lipset, Times Literary Supplement

Se alle

Aly’s detailed account follows German ships as they arrive at Luf Island to punish the local population for an earlier fight with Germans, burning homes and forests, stealing food and clearing land for the coconut plantations where the remaining islanders were enslaved…He draws widely from official documents and accounts where Germans wrote openly about violence in the South Seas.

- David D’Arcy, The Art Newspaper

Concise and convincing, this damning account reveals the painful legacy of colonialism.

Publishers Weekly

Well written and full of disturbing detail—a new and much-needed perspective on an iconic museum object.

- Bénédicte Savoy, author of <i>Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat</i>,

A lot has been written recently about looted art, but there’s been less talk about much greater colonial crimes. Aly shows that there’s no separating the two.

- Jörg Häntzschel, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Aly’s entertainingly written and comprehensively researched study shows that the Luf Boat was by no means fairly acquired by the German Reich.

- Andreas Kilb, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Anyone who sees the so-called Luf Boat in the future will immediately have in mind the murderous cruelty of the Germans.

- Felix Bohr, Ulrike Knöfel, and Elke Schmitter, Der Spiegel

This is a harrowing book, in which readers will learn more about the everyday brutality of colonialism than in any postcolonial studies tract.

- Sebastian Preuss, Weltkunst Online

From an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific.Countless museums in the West have been criticized for their looted treasures, but few as trenchantly as the Humboldt Forum, which displays predominantly non-Western art and artifacts in a modern reconstruction of the former Royal Palace in Berlin. The Forum’s premier attraction, an ornately decorated fifteen-meter boat from the island of Luf in modern-day Papua New Guinea, was acquired under the most dubious circumstances by Max Thiel, a German trader, in 1902 after two decades of bloody German colonial expeditions in Oceania.Götz Aly tells the story of the German pillaging of Luf and surrounding islands, a campaign of violence in which Berlin ethnologists were brazenly complicit. In the aftermath, the majestic vessel was sold to the Ethnological Museum in the imperial capital, where it has remained ever since. In Aly’s vivid telling, the looted boat is a portal to a forgotten chapter in the history of empire—the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago. One of these islands was even called Aly, in honor of the author’s great-granduncle, Gottlob Johannes Aly, a naval chaplain who served aboard ships that helped subjugate the South Sea islands Germany colonized.While acknowledging the complexity of cultural ownership debates, Götz Aly boldly questions the legitimacy of allowing so many treasures from faraway, conquered places to remain located in the West. Through the story of one emblematic object, The Magnificent Boat artfully illuminates a sphere of colonial brutality of which too few are aware today.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
A major contribution to the debate over whether and how to repatriate the countless objects and artworks acquired through dubious means that reside in the museums of former colonial powers…As an indictment of German colonial policies and leading scholars’ complicity in them, the book is unsparing and convincing.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780674276574
Publisert
2023-03-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Aly, Götz
Oversetter
Chase, Jefferson

Om bidragsyterne

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.

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