Dr Matthew Fitzpatrick (PhD, UNSW)

Postal address: Department of History Faculty of Social Sciences Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide SA 5001 Australia Telephone: (+61) 08 8201 2125 Fax: (+61) 08 8201 3350 Email: Matthew.Fitzpatrick@flinders.edu.au Location: Room 325, Social Sciences South Building

Currently Teaching:

HIST 2054: Globalisation in World History
HIST 2061: Imperialism and its Discontents
HIST 7050: Reading Imperialism

Main Research Interests:

Comparative imperialism, nineteenth and twentieth century European history, world history / world systems theory, cultural history.

Research in Progress:

- European relations with and perceptions of the Ottoman Empire prior to World War One.
- Narratives of German colonialism in film and fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Recent Publications:

Book:
Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848-1884. Berghahn Books, Oxford & New York, 2008.

Article:
“The Pre-History of the Holocaust? The Sonderweg and Historikerstreit Debates and the Abject Colonial Past” Central European History 41(3), 2008.

"Imperialism from Below: Informal Empire and the Private Sector in Nineteenth-Century Germany" Australian Journal of Politics and History 54(3) 2008.

“A Fall from Grace? National Unity and the Search for Naval Power and Colonial Possessions 1848-1884.” German History. 25(2), 2007.

“Narrating Empire: Die Gartenlaube and Germany’s Nineteenth –Century Liberal Expansionism.” German Studies Review. 30(1), 2007.

“Pining for the Periphery: German Decolonisation and the Negative Nostalgia of Hans Grimm.” in S Atzert & AG Bonnell Europe’s Pasts and Presents. Australian Humanities Press, Adelaide, 2004.pp.127-140.

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