Matthew P Fitzpatrick

A Pacific Power

Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 304 Seiten
ISBN 0198936273
EAN 9780198936275
Veröffentlicht 19. September 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press
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Beschreibung

A Pacific Power brings to light an often-overlooked history of German imperialism in the Pacific. Focusing on Samoa, it shows the tension between German rulers and Samoan subjects, as well as the variety of ways the Germans sought to reshape the colony according to their own requirements.

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Matthew P Fitzpatrick is the Matthew Flinders Professor of International History at Flinders University, Adelaide. He is the author of The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire as well as Purging the Empire: Mass Expulsions in Germany, 1871-1914, and Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism in Germany, 1848-1884. A past winner of the Chester Penn Higby Prize, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, he has also been a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Münster, Germany.