PUBLICATIONS:

Driver, Marjorie and Omaira Brunal-Perry (translators and editors, 1996) Carolinians in the Mariana Islands in the 1800s MARC Educational Series No. 21, University of Guam. This text is a collection of original source documents, in Spanish and English.

Farrell, Don A. (1991) History of the Northern Mariana Islands Saipan: CNMI Public School System.

Fritz, Georg (1989) The Chamorro: A History and Ethnography of the Marianas Translated by Elfriede Craddock, edited by Scott Russell. Saipan: Division of Historic Preservation (second edition).

Hezel, Francis X. (1989) From Conquest to Colonization: Spain in the Mariana Islands 1690 to 1740 Saipan: Division of Historic Preservation (Second Edition, 2000)

Peattie, Mark R. (1988) Nan'yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945 Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Russell, Scott (1998) Tiempon I Manmofo'na: Ancient Chamorro Culture and History in the Northern Mariana Islands Saipan: Division of Historic Preservation.

Russell, Scott (1999) Tiempon Alemán: A Look Back at German Rule in the Northern Mariana Islands, 1899-1914 Saipan: Division of Historic Preservation.

Spenneman, Dirk H.R. (1999) Aurora Australis: The German Period in the Mariana Islands, 1899-1914 Saipan: Occasional Historical Papers No. 5.

Spoehr, Alexander (1954) Saipan: The Ethnography of a War-Devastated Island Fieldlandia: Anthropology, Volume 41. Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum. (A second edition has been published by the CNMI Division of Historic Preservation, Saipan).

IMAGES:

Bellin, Jaques N. (1752). Carte de L'Archipel de St. Lazare ou Les Isles Marianes. Image from the Heritage Map Museum auction catalogue:
http://www.carto.com/c0211/austpacific.html

Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de (1601) Descripcion de las Indias de Poniente. This map by is probably derived from his Historia general de los hechos los castellanos en las islas i tierra firme del mar océano. The images are found at
http://www.prigsbee.com/maps/islands/marianas.html

Images from the Trust Territory of the Pacific Archives are available online from the University of Hawai‘i:
http://libweb.hawaii.edu/ttp/ttpi.html

This chapter uses a number of images from the collection of the Northern Marianas Museum, to whom we are enormously grateful.

Except where stated otherwise, all photographs by RDK Herman, Pacific Worlds.

WEBSITES:

An excellent photographic essay on the German era in Micronesia is presented on the Micronesian Seminar website out of Guam:
http://www.micsem.org/photos/german/index.htm