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Professor Norman Etherington was born in 1941 and educated at Yale
University. He was appointed to the Chair of History at the University of
Western Australia in 1989. The author of 6 books and more than 50 articles and book chapters, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in
Australia, a past President of the Australian Historical Association, a Member of ICOMOS and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain. He is general editor of the volume Missions and Empire, scheduled for publication in 2004 as part of the Oxford History of the British Empire.
For several years he has taught undergraduate courses comparing the
historical experience of South Africa and the USA.
Among his best known publications are:
The Great Treks: the Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854. London: Longman,
2001.
Theories of Imperialism: War, Conquest and Capital. London: Croom Helm [Routledge],
1984.
Rider Haggard. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984.
Preachers, Peasants and Politics in Southeast Africa 1835-1880 London:
Royal Historical Society [Boydell and Brewer], 1978.
‘A Tempest in a Teapot? Nineteenth-Century Contests for Land in South Africa’ Caledon Valley and the Invention in Mfecane’. Forthcoming, Journal of African History, 45 (2004), approximately 18 printed pages.
‘Recent Trends in the Historiography of Christianity in Southern Africa’, Journal of Southern African Studies (1996) 22:201-19.
‘The Great Trek in Relation to the Mfecane: A Reassessment’, South African Historical Journal (1991) 25:3-21.
‘Reconsidering Theories of Imperialism’, History and Theory (February, 1982) 21:1-36.
‘Theories of Imperialism in Southern Africa Revisited’, African Affairs (July, 1982) 81: 385-407.
‘Frederick Elton and the South African Factor in the Making of Britain's East
African Empire’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (No. 2, 1981) 9:255-74.
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