Matthew P Fitzpatrick
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 638229 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthew P Fitzpatrick |
| PRENOMES | Matthew P |
| SOBRENOME | Fitzpatrick |
| ASSINATURA | FITZPATRICK M P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6642-2319 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
After ‘Anglobalisation’
Der Prophet des Staatsgedankens”
A Farewell to the Thucydides Trap
Prefacing a series of articles in the Special Issue examining the imperial and colonial dimensions of Anglo-German relations prior to and during the First World War, this article examines how outdated understandings of Anglo-German relations are currently influencing political scientists who are seeking a historical basis for their theoretical models of twenty-first-century geopolitics. It looks at how Paul Kennedy’s understanding of an ostensibl…
Affirmative Orientalism
In 1884, during the period of the Socialist Laws, August Bebel took the time to publish a historical work entitled Die mohamedanisch- arabische Kulturperiode . In it Bebel positioned Islam and the early caliphates as the unacknowledged link between Greco-Roman traditions of knowledge and the blossoming of European culture that, he argued, had occurred since the Renaissance. He also used the book as an opportunity to reject claims that Christianit…
Globalization or Empire? Revolution, the State, and the Geopolitics of Chinese Debt, 1895–1914
Via an investigation of the collaboration between banks and foreign offices, this article demonstrates that the restructuring of China’s state debt before and after the revolution of 1911 was not simply a part of Chinese globalisation undertaken under the benign stewardship of foreign banks. Rather, the contest for Chinese loans reflected a power struggle for regional hegemony between expansionist states that hinged on both competition and cooper…
Truth Telling, Historiographical Agonism, and the Colonial Past in Germany and Australia
Via an examination of the current state of German attempts to come to terms with the country’s genocidal Nazi past, this article underscores the utility of an approach to historical scholarship and ‘truth telling’ that might be called historiographical agonism. It articulates how historiographical agonism deals with the difficulties of assimilating and reconciling problematic national pasts such as the Holocaust and the radical violence and dispo…
Racial warfare in German women’s colonial memoirs
The colonial memoirs of German women reflected and often overtly supported the structurally racist assumptions that naturalized German rule in Africa and the Pacific. When it came to describing the reasons for colonial uprisings and wars, however, few focused on broad notions of 'racial warfare', foregrounding instead the primacy of the battle for political independence and territorial sovereignty. Via a study of the memoirs of Magdalene von Prin…
Renegade’ Resistance and Colonial Rule in German Samoa
While German Samoa has appeared to some historians as a colony that demonstrates the benevolence of liberal colonial government, this article argues that Germany’s administration of Samoa should not be seen as a benign form of colonial rule that avoided violence because of the anthropological acumen of its culturally adept governors. Rather, it remained a colonial site in which dissent was expressed in both word and deed. While the resistance of …
Jeremy Best. Heavenly Fatherland
Journal Article Jeremy Best. Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire. Get access Jeremy Best. Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Cloth $75.00. Matthew P. Fitzpatrick Matthew P. Fitzpatrick Flinders University Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
The Kaiser and the Colonies
Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture? As this book shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like many other crowned heads of Europe. Rather than an expression of Wilhelm II’s personal rule, Germany’s global empire and its Weltpolitik had their origins in the political and economic changes undergon…
Sovereignty in the global south
Via an examination of recent work on the history of monarchy and sovereignty in the age of empire, this article examines concepts such as David Cannadine’s ‘ornamentalism’ and Johannes Paulmann’s ‘royal cosmopolitanism’ to posit the necessity of viewing royalty as a global and not just European development. It argues that the study of empires requires close attention to frontier entanglements that are best viewed through microhistorical case stud…
The Kaiser’s likeness
Despite its long history, the role and meaning of royal gift-giving during the age of empire is still a matter of some controversy. Via an investigation of rival theories of the nature of the gift, this article scrutinises the practice of gift-giving between monarchs within the German Empire. Specifically, it examines how relations between Kaiser Wilhelm II, King Njoya of Bamum and King Kabua of the Marshall Islands were framed by the mutual exch…
Blood and Diamonds
At first glance, Steven Press’s new book seems to have moved him away from the global concerns of his first monograph Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa (2017) towards a more concentrated focus on German colonialism in South-West Africa. The great strength of this book, however, is that Press has again depicted imperialism as a transnational and transimperial affair. His study of Germany’s colonial diamond trade s…
Theorising the history of violence after Pinker
Pinker’s 2018 work Enlightenment Now maintains his earlier commitment to Norbert Elias’ sanguine reading of post-Enlightenment human history. It replicates the problems that historians identified with his 2011 work, The Better Angels of Our Nature. Moving past Pinker’s theory does not, however, necessitate a rejection of theoretical or meta-historical approaches to the history of violence. Other recent works concerned with the history of violence…
Learning Empire
In a landmark work of scholarship, Erik Grimmer-Solem has taken the concept of liberal imperialism—now accepted by most historians of the Kaiserreich as just as applicable to Germany as it was to Britain and France—and explores its innermost working from a global perspective. The product is convincing and should put to rest any lingering doubts about the utility of the concept. His success is twofold. He persuasively demonstrates that imperialism…
Empire in the Heimat
Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich, by Willeke Sandler Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich, by Willeke Sandler (New York: Oxford U.P., 2018; pp. 343. £47.99). Matthew P Fitzpatrick Matthew P Fitzpatrick Flinders University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 135, Is…
Colonialism, China and the Chinese
"This book explores the place of China and the Chinese during the age of imperialism. Focusing not only on the state but also on the vitality of Chinese culture and the Chinese diaspora, it examines the seeming contradictions of a period in which China came under immense pressure from imperial expansion while remaining a major political, cultural and demographic force in its own right. Where histories of China commonly highlight episodes of confl…
Indigenous Australians and German Anthropology in the Era of ‘Decolonization’
Decolonizing history and anthropology is often presented as a theoretical enterprise, through which a more rigorous and inclusive framing of historical precepts will deliver a clearer and less Eurocentric understanding of the past. Yet it is arguably necessary to decouple decolonization from the broader practices of anti-Eurocentric historiography. Via an empirical assessment of the legacy of Hermann Klaatsch, a German anthropologist working on t…
Victor Klemperer. Munich 1919. Diary of a Revolution
Victor Klemperer. Munich 1919. Diary of a Revolution . Translated by Jessica Spengler (Cambridge: Polity, 2017), pp.x + 190. Sixteen b/w plates. £15.51 (hb)
Tautai
Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 270–271
Kowtowing before the Kaiser? Sino-German Relations in the Aftermath of the Boxer Uprising
While most discussions of Germany's response to the Boxer Rebellion have focused on the Kaiser's infamous ‘Hun Speech’, few have scrutinised the attitude of the Kaiser and the institutions of the German state towards the Chinese after the war. This article demonstrates that Sino-German relations after the Boxer War were mishandled by Berlin, particularly the Kaiser. Despite having insisted on a public apology from the Chinese emperor for the Boxe…
Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonization
In the past two decades, colonial studies, the postcolonial turn, the new imperial history, as well as world and global history have made serious strides toward revising key elements of German history. Instead of insisting that German modernity was a fundamentally unique, insular affair that incubated authoritarian social tendencies, scholars working in these fields have done much to reinsert Germany into the broader logic of nineteenth-century g…
Dina Gusejnova. European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917–1957
Taking Europe’s revolutions and political transformations during and after World War I as her starting point, Dina Gusejnova uses the memoirs and letters of Europe’s pre–World War I elites to offer a striking new portrait of the world they felt they had lost. More importantly, in European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917–1957, Gusejnova also offers a clear sense of the myriad political and personal projects undertaken by (particularly German-spea…
The Samoan Women’s Revolt
While the category of race remains indispensable for mapping the construction and maintenance of imperial hierarchies, this article argues that it is not sufficient. Far from being a universally accepted first principle in all colonial settings, racial thinking was viewed in German Samoa as an unwanted, highly controversial and even inflammatory approach to maintaining the asymmetrical communal relations necessitated by colonialism. Examining the…
Embodying Empire
Via an investigation of the broader historical conditions of European tattooing practices, this article argues that the example of the last German Governor of Samoa, Erich Schultz, demonstrates the key role of the body in colonial entanglements. By allowing himself to be tattooed in Samoan style, Schultz signalled his strong affinity with Samoan social practices and politics. Not merely indicative of a subjective shift, his tattooing also further…
Provincializing Rome
In conquering Egypt, the Roman Empire secured direct access to the centuries-old Indian Ocean trade network that in Roman times brought together China, India, Southeast Asia, Parthia, Arabia, and Africa as well as the Roman Mediterranean. Far from being a product of Schumpeterian objectless expansion, Rome's conquest of Egypt fit into a broader strategic logic that sought to extend Roman control over eastern entrepôts. Despite its centrality to t…
The Pre-History of the Holocaust? The Sonderweg and Historikerstreit Debates and the Abject Colonial Past
In chapter eleven of Mein Kampf , Adolf Hitler, having constructed aneal type “culture-bearing” Aryan race, 1 came to elucidate his views on the history of Jews within Germany. Until the time of Frederick the Great, he argued, “it still entered no one's head to regard the Jews as anything else but a ‘foreign’ people.” 2 Thereafter, he asserted, came a period of transition wherein Jews had “the effrontery to turn Germanic.” 3 The rest of the chapt…
The Kaiser and the Colonies
Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture? As this book shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like many other crowned heads of Europe. Rather than an expression of Wilhelm II’s personal rule, Germany’s global empire and its Weltpolitik had their origins in the political and economic changes undergon…
Blood and Diamonds
At first glance, Steven Press’s new book seems to have moved him away from the global concerns of his first monograph Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa (2017) towards a more concentrated focus on German colonialism in South-West Africa. The great strength of this book, however, is that Press has again depicted imperialism as a transnational and transimperial affair. His study of Germany’s colonial diamond trade s…
Indigenous Australians and German Anthropology in the Era of ‘Decolonization’
Decolonizing history and anthropology is often presented as a theoretical enterprise, through which a more rigorous and inclusive framing of historical precepts will deliver a clearer and less Eurocentric understanding of the past. Yet it is arguably necessary to decouple decolonization from the broader practices of anti-Eurocentric historiography. Via an empirical assessment of the legacy of Hermann Klaatsch, a German anthropologist working on t…
Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonization
In the past two decades, colonial studies, the postcolonial turn, the new imperial history, as well as world and global history have made serious strides toward revising key elements of German history. Instead of insisting that German modernity was a fundamentally unique, insular affair that incubated authoritarian social tendencies, scholars working in these fields have done much to reinsert Germany into the broader logic of nineteenth-century g…
A State of Exception? Mass Expulsions and the German Constitutional State, 1871-1914
Globalization or Empire? Revolution, the State, and the Geopolitics of Chinese Debt, 1895–1914
Via an investigation of the collaboration between banks and foreign offices, this article demonstrates that the restructuring of China’s state debt before and after the revolution of 1911 was not simply a part of Chinese globalisation undertaken under the benign stewardship of foreign banks. Rather, the contest for Chinese loans reflected a power struggle for regional hegemony between expansionist states that hinged on both competition and cooper…
Racial warfare in German women’s colonial memoirs
The colonial memoirs of German women reflected and often overtly supported the structurally racist assumptions that naturalized German rule in Africa and the Pacific. When it came to describing the reasons for colonial uprisings and wars, however, few focused on broad notions of 'racial warfare', foregrounding instead the primacy of the battle for political independence and territorial sovereignty. Via a study of the memoirs of Magdalene von Prin…
Theorising the history of violence after Pinker
Pinker’s 2018 work Enlightenment Now maintains his earlier commitment to Norbert Elias’ sanguine reading of post-Enlightenment human history. It replicates the problems that historians identified with his 2011 work, The Better Angels of Our Nature. Moving past Pinker’s theory does not, however, necessitate a rejection of theoretical or meta-historical approaches to the history of violence. Other recent works concerned with the history of violence…
Ideal and Ornamental Endeavours’
Diplomatic correspondence during the period 1878–83 offers a unique insight into the tension between humanitarian and geostrategic considerations in German and British foreign policy in the aftermath of the Congress of Berlin. During this period, Germany followed the lead of Britain in adhering to an Eastern policy that favoured the introduction of reforms in the Ottoman Empire that would alleviate the position of the Armenian minority. The more …
The threat of ‘woolly-haired grandchildren’
The German colonial world was marked by an ostensibly self-evident boundary between the white ruler and the black ruled that situated Europeans and indigenous peoples as diametrically opposed and socially discrete. This situation, however, was problematised by the gendered and sexualised interactions between European and indigenous society. The result was often a slippage between the administrative attempts to create recognisably ‘German’ familie…
A Fall from Grace? National Unity and the Search for Naval Power and Colonial Possessions 1848--1884
Traditionally, German naval and colonial agitation has been discussed as a late nineteenth-century development that signaled the cooption of many German liberals to a conservative policy of imperialism. This has been posited by many historians as antithetical to the true nature and objectives of political liberalism. Those few commentators that have noted the naval and colonial agitation of liberals during the early and mid-nineteenth century hav…
Imperialism from Below
Far from being the product of atavistic feudal remnants within German society, nineteenth‐century German imperialism stemmed from precisely the liberal milieu that had come to prominence during 1848‐49. Through an analysis of imperialist texts dealing with Central and South America, and the social logic of these imperialist works, an understanding of the nature of private sector and civil society imperialistic projects emerges that sees liberal i…
Liberal Imperialism in Germany
In a work based on new archival, press, and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism, by demonstrating the links between nationalism and expansionism in a study that surveys the half century of imperialist agitation and activity l…
The Pre-History of the Holocaust? The Sonderweg and Historikerstreit Debates and the Abject Colonial Past
In chapter eleven of Mein Kampf , Adolf Hitler, having constructed aneal type “culture-bearing” Aryan race, 1 came to elucidate his views on the history of Jews within Germany. Until the time of Frederick the Great, he argued, “it still entered no one's head to regard the Jews as anything else but a ‘foreign’ people.” 2 Thereafter, he asserted, came a period of transition wherein Jews had “the effrontery to turn Germanic.” 3 The rest of the chapt…
The threat of ‘woolly-haired grandchildren’
The German colonial world was marked by an ostensibly self-evident boundary between the white ruler and the black ruled that situated Europeans and indigenous peoples as diametrically opposed and socially discrete. This situation, however, was problematised by the gendered and sexualised interactions between European and indigenous society. The result was often a slippage between the administrative attempts to create recognisably ‘German’ familie…
Families, frontiers and the new imperial history
One of the more recent developments in historiography has been the emergence of 'new imperial history'. The articles within this special edition of the History of the Family offer examples of how some historians have dealt with the histories of both empires and families. Keywords: ImperialismFamilyHistory
Expansions and Contractions
Early in his landmark work, The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler despaired of the use of the concept of "Europe" by historians, complaining that
Religion, Politics and Dissent, 1660-1832
James Bradley's work has illuminated the nature of eighteenth-century Protestant dissent and its relationship with political life. This festschrift begins with an introduction by the editors offering a valuable insight into Bradley's work and his place in contemporary historiography. After reading it, one is tempted to think that the essays which follow will probe particular aspects of his work and ideas. This notion is unfounded for this is not …
Nazi Empire
Instructors seeking accessible and highly knowledgeable overviews of the Nazi period for their students are presently spoilt for choice. With recent surveys from Ian Kershaw, Richard Evans and Mark Mazower (to name but the most prominent in English), there is no lack of books on Nazism aimed at the general interested reader. Baranowski has entered the field with Nazi Empire, offering a new approach and a welcome survey of recent scholarship that …
Liberalismus und Emanzipation. In und Exklusionsprozesse im Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik
Often the notion of a correlation between liberalism and the emancipation movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has operated as a rule of thumb, and any sign of liberal intolerance or even cautious doubt about the status of women or Jews is seen somewhat ahistorically as a form of la trahison des clercs. The contribution of this collection is to scrutinize more closely, and ultimately revise, the assumed nexus between ‘liberalism’ a…
Provincializing Rome
In conquering Egypt, the Roman Empire secured direct access to the centuries-old Indian Ocean trade network that in Roman times brought together China, India, Southeast Asia, Parthia, Arabia, and Africa as well as the Roman Mediterranean. Far from being a product of Schumpeterian objectless expansion, Rome's conquest of Egypt fit into a broader strategic logic that sought to extend Roman control over eastern entrepôts. Despite its centrality to t…
Liberal Imperialism in Europe
In this state-of-the-field anthology, leading scholars in the fields of European imperial history and intellectual history explore the nature of European imperialism during the 'long nineteenth centur
Ideal and Ornamental Endeavours’
Diplomatic correspondence during the period 1878–83 offers a unique insight into the tension between humanitarian and geostrategic considerations in German and British foreign policy in the aftermath of the Congress of Berlin. During this period, Germany followed the lead of Britain in adhering to an Eastern policy that favoured the introduction of reforms in the Ottoman Empire that would alleviate the position of the Armenian minority. The more …
Globalising Germany
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New South Wales in Africa? The Convict Colonialism Debate in Imperial Germany
In 1852, the naturalist and writer Louisa Meredith observed in her book My Home in Tasmania : “I know of no place where greater order and decorum is observed by the motley crowds assembled on any public occasion than in this most shamefully slandered country: not even in an English country village can a lady walk alone with less fear of harm or insult than in this capital of Van Diemen's Land, commonly believed at home to be a pest-house, where e…
A State of Exception? Mass Expulsions and the German Constitutional State, 1871-1914
Purging the Empire
While the fate of minorities under Nazism is well known, the earlier expulsions of Germany's unwanted residents are less well understood. Against a backdrop of raging public debate, and numerous claims of a 'state of exception', tens of thousands of vulnerable people living in the German Empire were the victims of mass expulsion orders between 1871 and 1914. Groups as diverse as Socialists, Jesuits, Danes, colonial subjects, French nationalists, …
Wilhelm II
Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900–1941. By John C.G. Röhl (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp.1562, AU$97.95 (cloth)
Nazifying colonialism
Dr Heinrich Schnee was among Weimar Germany's foremost colonial authors and agitators for the return of Germany's overseas colonies. An examination of Schnee's work and cultural milieu through the prism of Bakhtin's concept of the literary chronotope reveals the differences and similarities between liberals and Nazis on the question of colonies and empire in the interwar period. It also assists in explaining the complex interrelationship between …
The Samoan Women’s Revolt
While the category of race remains indispensable for mapping the construction and maintenance of imperial hierarchies, this article argues that it is not sufficient. Far from being a universally accepted first principle in all colonial settings, racial thinking was viewed in German Samoa as an unwanted, highly controversial and even inflammatory approach to maintaining the asymmetrical communal relations necessitated by colonialism. Examining the…
Embodying Empire
Via an investigation of the broader historical conditions of European tattooing practices, this article argues that the example of the last German Governor of Samoa, Erich Schultz, demonstrates the key role of the body in colonial entanglements. By allowing himself to be tattooed in Samoan style, Schultz signalled his strong affinity with Samoan social practices and politics. Not merely indicative of a subjective shift, his tattooing also further…
German Missionaries and Australian Anthropology
In their primary task of converting Indigenous Australians to Christianity, German missions active in various parts of Australia through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century recorded relatively few successes. On the other hand, their endeavours in observing and recording Aboriginal languages and cultures have left a rich – and yet frequently overlooked – anthropological legacy. A common element in that legacy is their work in the area of…
Victor Klemperer. Munich 1919. Diary of a Revolution
Victor Klemperer. Munich 1919. Diary of a Revolution . Translated by Jessica Spengler (Cambridge: Polity, 2017), pp.x + 190. Sixteen b/w plates. £15.51 (hb)
Tautai
Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 270–271
Kowtowing before the Kaiser? Sino-German Relations in the Aftermath of the Boxer Uprising
While most discussions of Germany's response to the Boxer Rebellion have focused on the Kaiser's infamous ‘Hun Speech’, few have scrutinised the attitude of the Kaiser and the institutions of the German state towards the Chinese after the war. This article demonstrates that Sino-German relations after the Boxer War were mishandled by Berlin, particularly the Kaiser. Despite having insisted on a public apology from the Chinese emperor for the Boxe…
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