Norman Etherington

Not to be confused with Norman Hetherington.

Norman Etherington in 2021

Norman Etherington in an Alvis Saracen at a community protest against the sale of Fort Largs, 2014

Norman Etherington AM is emeritus Professor of History at the University of Western Australia, who is best known for his published research on the history of European imperialism, Christian missions and Southern Africa. He is a past president of the Australian Historical Association and the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific. Outside of academia, he is best known for his involvement with heritage conservation, having served on the Adelaide City Council, the Heritage Council of Western Australia, the Council of the National Trust of Western Australia, and as president of the National Trust of South Australia.

Early life and education

Norman Etherington was born 27 June 1941 at Port Townsend, Washington. He was educated at Mount Vernon High School, Mount Vernon Washington and Yale University, BA 1963, MA 1966, PhD 1971. ^[1]

Academic career

Etherington joined the History department at the University of Adelaide as a lecturer in 1968. ^[2]

In 1975, he became a member of the American Historical Association. ^[3]

In 1988 he was appointed to the Chair of History at the University of Western Australia, where he taught until retirement in 2007. ^[4]  He served in various administrative capacities on the Academic Board and the Academic Council. From 1995 to 1997 he was president of the Australian Historical Association. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) in 1988, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1993 and the Royal Geographical Society (UK) in 2008. ^[4]

His published books, journal articles and conference papers mostly concern European imperialism in theory and practice, Christian missions, and British rule in Africa, Oceania, and the Caribbean. He has also served on the editorial boards of several academic journals. He held visiting appointments at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (1974,1989), the University of Cape Town (1981,1993), Columbia University (1984), Humanities Research Center, Australian National University (1995), Institut des Civilisations Comparées, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence (1995–96) and Rhodes University (2002). He was a non-resident Research Associate at the University of South Africa from 2001 to 2021. ^[4]

Books

• 1978.  Preachers, Peasants and Politics in Southeast Africa 1835-1880. London: Royal Historical Society. ^{[5] [6]}
• 1984.  Rider Haggard. Boston: G. K. Hall. ^[7]
• 1984.  Theories of Imperialism: War, Conquest and Capital.  London: Croom Helm. ^[8]
• 1984.  Time Gentlemen, Please!!: The Story of the Fight to Save the Aurora Hotel, 1983 Adelaide: Kitchener Press.
• 1991.  The Annotated She (edited, extensively annotated and introduced). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ^{[9] [10]}
• 1992.  Peace, Politics and Violence in the New South Africa (edited and introduced). Oxford: Hans Zell. ^{[11] [12] [13]}
• 2001. The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854. London: Longman. ^{[14] [15]}
• 2005.  Missions and Empire (edited, introduced, and contributed one chapter).  Oxford: Oxford University Press. ^{[16] [17] [18]}
• 2007.  Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa (edited, introduced and contributed 3 chapters).  Perth: UWA Press. ^[19]
• 2010. Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism:1840-1930 (edited with Peter Limb and Peter Midgeley; contributed one chapter). ^[20]
• 2015. Indigenous Evangelists and Questions of Authority in the British Empire, 1750-1940, co-authored with Peggy Brock, Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent.  Leiden: Brill. ^[21]
• 2016. Big Game Hunter: A Biography of Frederick Courteney Selous.  Ramsbury, Wiltshire: Robert Hale. ^[22]
• 2017. The 2016 South Australian Community Consultation on Local Heritage. Adelaide: National Trust of South Australia.
• 2017. Imperium of the Soul: The Political and Aesthetic Imagination of Edwardian Imperialists. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ^{[23] [24]}
• 2021. A 50 Year Plan for Metropolitan Adelaide. Adelaide: National Trust of South Australia. ^[25]

References

1. {Who's Who in Australia, 2023]
2. "Dr Norman Etherington, 1983". The University of Adelaide.
3. "AHA MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: NORMAN ETHERINGTON". American Historical Association.
4. "Norman Etherington". the UWA Profiles and Research Repository.
5. Meintjes, Sheila (1982). "Peasants and Christians in South Africa" . The Journal of African History. 23 (1): 127–130. doi:10.1017/S0021853700020338. ISSN   0021-8537. JSTOR   181280.
6. Meintjes, Sheila (January 1982). "Peasants and Christians in South Africa - The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry. By Colin Bundy. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1979. Pp. xx + 276. £9.00 (£3.90, paperback). - Preachers, Peasants and Politics in Southeast Africa, 1835–1880: African Christian Communities in Natal, Pondoland and Zululand. By Norman Etherington. London: Royal Historical Society, 1978. Pp. xii + 230. £8.50" . The Journal of African History. 23 (1): 127–130. doi:10.1017/S0021853700020338. ISSN   1469-5138.
7. "Book Review: Rider Haggard". Edge Induced Cohesion. 30 August 2020.
8. Law, Robin (January 1985). "Imperialism: Developing by Definition - Theories of Imperialism: War, Conquest and Capital. By Norman Etherington. Beckenham: Croom Helm, Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble Books, 1984, Pp. viii + 296, $16.95" . The Journal of African History. 26 (1): 125–126. doi:10.1017/S0021853700023203. ISSN   1469-5138.
9. M., R. D. (1991). "A Critical Edition of "She"". Science Fiction Studies. 18 (3): 451–453. ISSN   0091-7729. JSTOR   4240105.
10. Siemens, Lloyd (1993). "Haggard Critical Edition". English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. 36 (2): 205–208. ISSN   1559-2715.
11. Nantambu, Kwame; Hoskins, Linus A. (March 1995). "Book Review: Review Article: Facing Reality in Post Apartheid South Africa: Breaking Story: The South African Press, State & Market in Post Apartheid South Africa, against the Tide: Whites in the Struggle against Apartheid, Peace, Politics and Violence in the New South Africa" . A Current Bibliography on African Affairs. 26 (3): 191–199. doi:10.1177/001132559502600301. ISSN   0011-3255.
12. Drew, Allison (22 December 1994). "Peace, Politics and Violence in the new South Africa". Africa Today. 41 (1): 70–76.
13. Dreijmanis, John (1995). "Review of The Opening of the Apartheid Mind: Options for the New South Africa; Peace, Politics and Violence in the New South Africa" . African Studies Review. 38 (2): 182–184. doi:10.2307/525344. ISSN   0002-0206. JSTOR   525344.
14. "Reviewing 'the evidence' for The Great Treks : review article". South African Historical Journal. 47. November 2002. hdl:10520/EJC93478.
15. Landau, Paul (November 2003). "Review of Etherington, Norman, The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854". H-Net Reviews. H-SAfrica, H-Review.
16. Martin, David (2006). "Missions and Empire" . Journal of Religion in Africa. 36 (2): 224–230. doi:10.1163/157006606777070641. ISSN   0022-4200. JSTOR   27594377.
17. Hall, Catherine (2007). "Review of Missions and Empire" . The English Historical Review. 122 (499): 1436–1438. doi:10.1093/ehr/cem338. ISSN   0013-8266. JSTOR   20108352.
18. Grant, Kevin (October 2006). "Norman Etherington, ed. Missions and Empire. Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 332. $55.00 (cloth)" . Journal of British Studies. 45 (4): 928–929. doi:10.1086/509369. ISSN   1545-6986.
19. Ward, Kerry (2008). "Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa (review)" . Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa. 66 (1): 193–196. doi:10.1353/trn.0.0008. ISSN   1726-1368.
20. Mcdonald, Jared (January 2012). "Review: Grappling with the Beast". Settler Colonial Studies. 2 (2): 203–211. doi:10.1080/2201473X.2012.10648851. hdl: 1959.3/357427 . ISSN   2201-473X.
21. Wild-Wood, Emma (July 2017). "Indigenous evangelists and questions of authority in the British Empire, 1750–1940. First fruits. By Peggy Brock, Norman Etherington, Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent . (Studies in Christian Mission, 46.) Pp. xiv + 286 incl. 13 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2015. €115. 978 90 04 29914 6; 0924 9389" . The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 68 (3): 655–657. doi:10.1017/S0022046917000136. ISSN   0022-0469.
22. Thompsell, Angela (July 2019). "BIOGRAPHY OF A BIG GAME HUNTER IN SOUTHERN AFRICA - Big Game Hunter: A Biography of Frederick Courteney Selous. By Norman Etherington. Marlborough, UK: Robert Hale, 2016. Pp. 224. $39.95, hardback (ISBN: 9780719808289)" . The Journal of African History. 60 (2): 311–312. doi:10.1017/S0021853719000574. ISSN   0021-8537.
23. Steer, Philip (September 2019). "Imperium of the soul: The political and aesthetic imagination of Edwardian imperialists, by Norman Etherington" . Victorian Studies. 61 (3): 502–504. doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.61.3.21.
24. Gorman, Dan (December 2019). "Imperium of the Soul: The Political and Aesthetic Imagination of Edwardian Imperialists . By Norman Etherington. Studies in Imperialism. Edited by Andrew S. Thompson.Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. xviii+246. $115.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper)" . The Journal of Modern History. 91 (4): 932–933. doi:10.1086/705852. ISSN   0022-2801.
25. Etherington, Norman (2021). A 50 Year Plan for Metropolitan Adelaide, National Trust of South Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.

External links

• Norman Etherington publications indexed by Google Scholar