Season 5 · Episode 21
S5E11: Sweet Carolines
The Colonial Department · The Colonial Department
March 15, 202414m 11s
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Show Notes
<html><p>Sea snakes and scientists, popes and Pacific islands all star in this wide-ranging episode. As Germany and Spain threaten to go to war over a chain of islands, the Spaniards feared that the diplomatic ruckus kicked up by the Caroline Crisis would also swallow up their colony next door: the Philippines!</p><p>Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a></p><p>Follow us on TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thecolonialdept" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a></p><p>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a></p><p>P.S. My voiceover partner-in-crime, Anya, is on extended leave, so I’ll be voicing the entirety of this episode.</p><p><br/>The book version of this podcast is called <em>Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946</em>. <a href="https://www.faction.press/product-page/silk-silver-spices-slaves-philippines-history" target="_blank">Purchase here</a>. (An ebook version is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silk-Silver-Spices-Slaves-Philippine-ebook/dp/B0D5JSXC5M" target="_blank">also available in Amazon</a>.) <br/></p><p><strong>References: </strong></p><p>Weston, Nathaniel Parker (2012). “Scientific Authority, Nationalism, and Colonial Entanglements between Germany, Spain, and the Philippines, 1850 to 1900” [doctoral dissertation]. University of Washington. </p><p>Weston, Nathaniel Parker (2021). <em>Specters of Germany: Colonial Rivalry and Scholarship in the Philippine Reform Movement and Revolution. </em>Ateneo de Manila University Press.</p><p>Hanlon, David (1988). <em>Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890. </em>University of Hawaii Press.</p><p>Hezel, Francis X. (1995). <em>Strangers in Their Own Land: A Century of Colonial Rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands. </em>University of Hawaii Press.<em> </em></p><p>“German Gunboats and Pacific Natives” (14 February 1887). <em>The West Australian.</em></p><p>“Jose Rizal, suspected spy, deciphered” (19 September 2012). National Historical Commission of the Philippines.<strong> </strong><a href="https://nhcp.gov.ph/jose-rizal-suspected-spy-deciphered/" target="_blank">https://nhcp.gov.ph/jose-rizal-suspected-spy-deciphered/</a></p></html>