Publications

Books

German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers, series ‘Science in History’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
‘The German and Japanese Empires: Great Power Competition and the World Wars in Trans-Imperial Perspective’, with Daniel Hedinger, in Christopher A. Bayly †, Peter Fibiger Bang; Walter Scheidel (eds), The Oxford World History of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Moritz von Brescius, Friederike Kaiser and Stephanie Kleidt (eds), Über den Himalaya. Die Expedition der Brüder Schlagintweit nach Indien und Zentralasien 1854 bis 1858 (Böhlau, Köln, 2015).

‘Empires of Opportunity: German naturalists in British India and the frictions of transnational science’, Modern Asian Studies, (2020), pp. 1-46.

‘The German and Japanese Empires: Great Power Competition and the World Wars in Trans-Imperial Perspective’, with Daniel Hedinger, in P. Bang, C. A. Bayly †, W. Scheidel (eds), The Oxford World History of Empire, Vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 1123–1161.

‘Gustav Mann and bioprospecting in West Africa 1859–1863: A Digital History Compilation’, with a student group of Bern University  

German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers, series ‘Science in History’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Paperback edition published 12. November 2020
Reviewed in:

NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 4 (2020)

German Historical Institute Bulletin, 2 (2020)

H-Soz-Kult, (14.09.2020)

Metascience, 29 (2020)

Traverse, 1 (2020)

Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle, 59 (2019)

Le Monde, N°359 Science&Techno, 12 Juin 2019.

‘Einleitung. Die Gebrüder Schlagintweit in Korrespondenz mit Alexander von Humboldt: Einblicke in einen epistemischen Umbruch’, in edition humboldt digital, ed. by Ottmar Ette. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 2019.

‘Cultural Brokers: Nain Singh und das Innenleben der Schlagintweit-Expeditionen in Asien, 1854-58’, Jahrbuch für europäische Überseegeschichte, 17 (Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden, 2018), pp. 75–119.

with Friederike Kaiser and Stephanie Kleidt (eds), Über den Himalaya. Die Expedition der Brüder Schlagintweit nach Indien und Zentralasien 1854 bis 1858 (Böhlau, Cologne, 2015).

‘Humboldt’scher Forscherdrang und britische Kolonialinteressen: Die Indien- und Hochasien-Reise der Brüder Schlagintweit (1854-1858)’, ibid., pp. 31–88.

‘Hochstapler, Kolonial-Gehilfen, Helden. Die kontroverse Rezeption der Schlagintweit-Expedition’, ibid., pp. 251–280.

with Stephanie Kleidt, ‘“Die Löwen des Tages”. Die Indien- und Hochasienexpedition der Brüder Schlagintweit 1854–1858’, Jahrbuch BERG 2015 (Munich, 2015), pp. 82–87.

with James White, Tilmann Kulke (eds), ‘Current Historiographical Research at the European University Institute’, special issue of Zeitenblicke, online journal, 12 (2013).

 ‘Interview about Global History’, with Prof. Sebastian Conrad (Free University Berlin) and Tilmann Kulke

‘The Cultural History of Empire’. An Interview with Professor Antonella Romano (EUI) and Professor Jorge Flores (EUI)

‘Connecting the New World. Nets, Mobility and Progress in the Age of Alexander von Humboldt’, International Review for Humboldtian Studies, 25 (2012), pp. 11–33.

Publications in preparation

‘Truth and beauty: the art of expeditionary science’ (under review).

‘The private side of cultural brokerage: autobiographical practices and the self-constructed archives of imperial exploration’, The South Asia Chronicle 2020 (in production).

‘A Typology of Foreign Scientific Practitioners in the British Raj’, special issue of The EUI Working Papers, in honour of Prof Jorge Flores, online publication (in production), 30 pp.