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Moritz von Brescius (University of Bern), "When was the Postcolonial in German History? Ernst Fickendey, Imperial Careering and Plantation Cultures Between Europe and the Tropics" [work in progress]
 
Recommended supplementary reading: 

Florian Wagner, "Inventing Colonial Agronomy. Buitenzorg and the Transition from the Western to the Eastern Model of Colonial Agriculture, 1880s-1930s," in Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennett, Environments of Empire. Networks and Agents of Ecological Change (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), 103-128.
Michael B. Miller, "When East Met East: Dutch East Indies Planters and the Ukraine Project (1942–1944)," Central European History 53 (2020), 613–635.

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Lepidoptera by Bartram

Late 18th century engraving of Lepidoptera by William Bartram. Image courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.