Norman Etherington

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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.

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Academic career

Etherington joined the History department at the University of Adelaide as a lecturer in 1968. [1]

In 1975, he became a member of the American Historical Association. [2]

In 1988 he was appointed to the Chair of History at the University of Western Australia, where he taught until retirement in 2007. [3]  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. [3]

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. [3]

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  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Book Review: Rider Haggard". Edge Induced Cohesion. 30 August 2020.
  7. ↑ 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.
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  13. ↑ "Reviewing 'the evidence' for The Great Treks : review article". South African Historical Journal. 47. Nov 2002. doi:10.10520/EJC93478.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ Martin, David (2006). "Missions and Empire". Journal of Religion in Africa. 36 (2): 224–230. ISSN   0022-4200.
  16. ↑ Hall, Catherine (2007). "Review of Missions and Empire". The English Historical Review. 122 (499): 1436–1438. ISSN   0013-8266.
  17. ↑ 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.
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  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ 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.
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