Nathaniel Parker Weston
Biographic Data
| ID | 6445045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathaniel Parker Weston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathaniel Parker |
| FAMILY NAME | Weston |
| SIGNATURE | WESTON N P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seattle Central College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4357-1685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Racializing Pacific Islanders
In 1862, the German naturalist Carl Semper traveled through the Palau Islands, a Spanish colony in the Southwestern Pacific. He published an account of his travels in 1873 and claimed that the people of Palau possessed Jewish facial features. Although his book was rejected by professional anthropologists in Imperial Germany, popular anthropologists widely circulated his observation that Palauans shared physical characteristics with Jewish people.…
Photographs of Jewish Clothing in Nazi Germany and the Shoah
Pictures of Jewish clothing allow viewers to witness the centrality of clothes in Nazi persecution and expropriation both before and during the genocide of Jewish Europeans. The photographs serve as documentary records and vehicles for seeing specific situations in which buying, selling, producing, wearing, and stealing clothes was part of everyday life in Nazi Germany, occupied Europe, and the Holocaust. They demonstrate the importance of clothi…
Memoirs in Miniature
This article examines the Care and Maintenance (CM/1) form of Paula Bettauer for what it reveals about her memories of surviving the Holocaust and her husband’s murder in Auschwitz. The record includes a personal narrative, chronologies of her employment status and vital documents, as well as other details, all of which offer a view of navigating Vienna following the Nazi annexation and later deportation of the vast majority of the city’s Jewish …
Anna Semper (1826–1909) and the female scientist in modern Germany
This article uses the work of Anna Semper (1826–1909) to explore the possibilities for understanding women’s contributions to the development of science in Germany from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. By examining the publications of her husband, the naturalist Carl Semper (1832–1893), as well as those of other scholars, traces of the ways that she produced scientific knowledge begin to emerge. Because th…
El porvenir de nuestras posesiones ultramarinas’
This article examines the roles of German scholarship in Spanish writing about the Philippines in the two decades following the 1868 Glorious Revolution in Spain. Several Spanish authors used references to German scholars to enhance the credibility of their writings about the Southeast Asian colony. Others also recognized Germany as a national rival that threatened Spanish interests in the Philippines. Both positions ultimately reinforced Spain's…
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El porvenir de nuestras posesiones ultramarinas’
This article examines the roles of German scholarship in Spanish writing about the Philippines in the two decades following the 1868 Glorious Revolution in Spain. Several Spanish authors used references to German scholars to enhance the credibility of their writings about the Southeast Asian colony. Others also recognized Germany as a national rival that threatened Spanish interests in the Philippines. Both positions ultimately reinforced Spain's…
Anna Semper (1826–1909) and the female scientist in modern Germany
This article uses the work of Anna Semper (1826–1909) to explore the possibilities for understanding women’s contributions to the development of science in Germany from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. By examining the publications of her husband, the naturalist Carl Semper (1832–1893), as well as those of other scholars, traces of the ways that she produced scientific knowledge begin to emerge. Because th…
Memoirs in Miniature
This article examines the Care and Maintenance (CM/1) form of Paula Bettauer for what it reveals about her memories of surviving the Holocaust and her husband’s murder in Auschwitz. The record includes a personal narrative, chronologies of her employment status and vital documents, as well as other details, all of which offer a view of navigating Vienna following the Nazi annexation and later deportation of the vast majority of the city’s Jewish …
Photographs of Jewish Clothing in Nazi Germany and the Shoah
Pictures of Jewish clothing allow viewers to witness the centrality of clothes in Nazi persecution and expropriation both before and during the genocide of Jewish Europeans. The photographs serve as documentary records and vehicles for seeing specific situations in which buying, selling, producing, wearing, and stealing clothes was part of everyday life in Nazi Germany, occupied Europe, and the Holocaust. They demonstrate the importance of clothi…
Racializing Pacific Islanders
In 1862, the German naturalist Carl Semper traveled through the Palau Islands, a Spanish colony in the Southwestern Pacific. He published an account of his travels in 1873 and claimed that the people of Palau possessed Jewish facial features. Although his book was rejected by professional anthropologists in Imperial Germany, popular anthropologists widely circulated his observation that Palauans shared physical characteristics with Jewish people.…
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