The Race Question in Oceania: A. B. Meyer and Otto Finsch between metropolitan theory and field experience, 1865-1914 in Bloomington, MN

This richly interdisciplinary book explores the transformative impacts of personal encounters in Oceania on German understandings of human difference. Through detailed analyses of the works of A.B. Meyer and Otto Finsch, it illuminates the difficult relationship between field experience and metropolitan science in late nineteenth-century Europe.