Jürgen G. Nagel

Jürgen Günther Nagel (* 1966 ) is a German historian . He generally publishes as Jürgen G. Nagel. He mainly researches the global history of economic, political and social relations, v. a. in maritime Southeast Asia and in sub-Saharan Africa. Nagel is currently devoting himself to the history of the interweaving of the Indian Ocean, the history of society in Namibia and the history of relationships between Western imperial powers and Islamic societies.

Scientific career

Jürgen G. Nagel studied history , political science and ethnology at the University of Trier . From 1997 to 2001 he worked there as a research assistant in a research project on early industrialization in the Rhenish region within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center between the Rhine and the Maas . In 2003 he was in Trier with the work The Key to the Moluccas. Makassar and the trading structures of the Malay Archipelago in the 17th and 18th centuries . The work was supervised by Klaus Gerteis . Since 1997, Nagel has held various teaching positions in the history of science, overseas history and historical ethnology at the University of Trier. From 2004 to 2005 he was an assistant at the chair for modern history. From 2005 to 2015 he was a research associate in the "Modern European and Non-European History" department at the Fernuniversität Hagen . There he put his habilitation thesis on The Colony as a scientific project in 2013 . Research organization and research practice in the German colonial empire . In 2015, Nagel was appointed university professor and head of the "History of Europe in the World" department. After serving as vice dean of the Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen from 2016 to 2018, he has been the dean of the faculty in question since then.

Nagel is also deputy chairman of the Association for the History of the World System (VGWS), co-editor of the yearbook for European overseas history and managing editor of the magazine for world history .

Publications (selection)

• When the emperor invented jihad. On the "revolutionization" of the Islamic Orient by the German Reich in World War I, in: Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 19 (2018) 2, pp. 337–368.
• Hamburg, the Netherlands and the age of the trading companies , in: Jürgen and Martina Elvert (eds.): Agents, actors, adventurers. Contributions to the exhibition “Europe and the Sea” at the German Historical Museum Berlin, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2018, pp. 355–363.
• Changing Connectivity in a World of Small Islands. The Role of Makassar (Sulawesi) as a Hub Under Dutch Hegemony , in: Burkhard Schnepel / Edward A. Alpers (eds.): Connectivity in Motion. Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 397-420.
• Shipping on the Indian Ocean in the 19th century. Technology and knowledge in the modern transport revolution , in: Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 18 (2017) 2, pp. 61–79.
• Asia and the Second World War. Thoughts on the “other side” of a global war , in: Südasien-Chronik 5 (2015), pp. 169–198.
• About the preservation and taking possession of ancient buildings. The ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and the monument protection concept in German colonialism , in: Michael Mann / Jürgen G. Nagel (ed.): Europe beyond borders. Festschrift for Reinhard Wendt, Heidelberg (Draupadi) 2015, pp. 355–388.
• A "Mekka letter" from Lindi. The encounter of German colonialism with a supposedly political Islam in the summer of 1908 , in: Werner Daum / Wolfgang Kruse / Eva Ochs / Arthur Schlegelmilch (eds.): Political Movement and Symbolic Order. Hagen studies on political cultural history. Festschrift for Peter Brandt (Archive of Social Democracy. Series: Political and Social History, 96), Bonn: JHW Dietz 2014, pp. 317–334.
• Southeast Asia and Oceania , in: Akira Iriye / Jürgen Osterhammel (eds.): A History of the World. Vol. 3: Empires and Encounters 1350-1750, ed. by Wolfgang Reinhard, Cambridge / Mass., London (Harvard University Press) 2015, pp. 553–736. [with Reinhard Wendt].
• The missionary and the other religion. Some reflections on the ethnological contributions of German missionaries . In: Ulrich van der Heyden , Andreas Feldtkeller (Hrsg.): Mission history as a history of the globalization of knowledge. Transcultural acquisition and transfer of knowledge by Christian missionaries in Africa and Asia in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries (Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv Vol. 19). Stuttgart 2012, pp. 233–248.
• Adventure of long-distance trading. The East India Companies . Darmstadt 2007, 2nd edition Darmstadt / Mainz 2011.
• together with Christine Kracht: A terrific misunderstanding. Pietists and Buddhists in Western Tibet . In: Damals , 42, 2010, 5, pp. 60–66.
• The failure and survival of the Portuguese expansion in Southeast Asia . In: Michael Kraus, Hans Ottomeyer (Ed.): Nouos Mundos - New Worlds. Portugal and the Age of Discovery . Dresden 2007, pp. 175-189.
• The Company and the Port City. Trading Centers of the Malay Archipelago and their Role in Commercial Networks During the 17th and 18th Centuries . In: Margit Schulte Beerbühl, Jörg Vögele (Eds.): Spinning the Commercial Web. International Trade, Merchants and Commercial Cities, c. 1640-1939 . Frankfurt am Main 2004, pp. 249-273.
• Formal or Informal? Private Trade in Maritime Asian Towns under the Rule of the Dutch East India Company, 17th and 18th Centuries . In: World History Bulletin , 29, 2003, 1, pp. 17-22.
• The key to the Moluccas. Makassar and the trade structures of the Malay Archipelago in the 17th and 18th centuries - an exemplary study (Writings on Social and Economic History, Vol. 3), including dissertation at Trier University, Hamburg 2003.
• Kota, Kampung and flowing border. Some thoughts on the early modern urban history of Indonesia . In: Angela Giebmeyer, Helga Schnabel-Schüle (ed.): “The most important thing is the person”. Festschrift for Klaus Gerteis on his 60th birthday (Trier historical research vol. 41). Mainz 2000, pp. 153-180.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nagel's curriculum vitae including list of publications. Website of the Fernuniversität Hagen
2. ↑ Jürgen G. Nagel: Shipping on the Indian Ocean in the 19th century. Technology and knowledge in the modern transport revolution. 2017, accessed on April 11, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Review. In: Die Zeit , No. 11/2008; to the adventure of long-distance trading. The East India Companies . Darmstadt 2007.