Imperial Museum Dynasties in Europe: Papal Ethnographic Collections and Material Culture (Paperback, 2023)

The Ethnographic Exhibit as a Showcase of Liberal Humanism in Nineteenth-Century Europe.- The Making of the Vatican's 'Modern' Museum Dynasty: The Ethnology of Fr. Wilhelm Schmidt SVD.- Old and New Dynastic Orders: German Anthropology in the era of Bismarck.- Dynastic Networks: The Collision of Christianity and Colonialism in New Guinea.- Fr. Franz Kirschbaum's Contribution to Collecting in New Guinea.- Material Culture Crossing Empires: Notes, Queries and Letters.- The Pontifical Missionary Exhibition (1925): The Last Great Nineteenth-Century Exhibition.- Empires End and Ominous Beginnings-: The Missionary and Ethnological Museum (1927) and the Lateran Treaty (1929).