Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Since coming to Australia in 1968 Norman Etherington has published widely on European Imperialism, African History, History of the British Empire, History of Christian Missions, Southern Africa and the History of Cartography. He has held visiting posts at Columbia University, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Rhodes University, and the University of Cape Town. He is a Research Associate at the University of South Africa.
Outside the academy he has been recognised for his service to the National Trust and the Heritage Council of Western Australia. From 2012 to 2017 he was President of the National Trust of South Australia and is a past President of the Australian HIstorical Association. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Royal Historical Society (UK) and the Royal Geographical Society (UK). In 2013 he was made a member of the Order of Australia, AM for services to history and the community.
Keywords
- African history
- Colonialism and imperialism
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Christianity
Earth & Environmental Sciences
nineteenth century
Earth & Environmental Sciences
religion
Earth & Environmental Sciences
colonialism
Earth & Environmental Sciences
slave
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Africa
Arts & Humanities
headwater
Earth & Environmental Sciences
medicine
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Research Output 1971 2017
Imperium of the soul: The political and aesthetic imagination of Edwardian imperialists
Etherington, N., Jan 2017, Manchester University Press. 264 p. (Studies in Imperialism)Research output: Book/Report › Book
Imperialist
Imperium
Aesthetics
Joseph Conrad
British Empire
Big Game Hunter: A Biography of Frederick Courteney Selous
Etherington, N., 2016, The Crowood Press. 272 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Africa
Hunters
Adventurers
World War I
Novelist
Exploration and Empire
Etherington, N. A., 2016, The Encyclopedia of Empire. J. M. (ed.). Online-http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118455074: John Wiley & Sons, p. 2816 2816 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Review Debate: Jeff Guy's Theophilus Shepstone: a study in character
Etherington, N. A., 2016, In : Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa. 90, p. 51-80 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Schools and Education in the Missionary Enterprise
Etherington, N. A., 2016, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity. L. S. A. M. J. M. (ed.). United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons, p. 166-175 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
Projects 1998 2011
- 5 Finished
The Experiences of Indigenous Christians as Colonial Subjects
Etherington, N., Griffiths, G., Van Gent, J. & Brock, P.
University of Western Australia
1/06/09 → 31/05/11
Project: Research
Recovering the Experience of the Indigenous Evangelist in the Expansion of Christianity During the Late Colonial Era
Etherington, N., Griffiths, G., Van Gent, J. & Brock, P.
1/01/08 → 31/12/10
Project: Research
Writing the new History of British Imperialism its European, African and Australian context
1/01/02 → 31/12/06
Project: Research
The Great Treks: Black and White Migration and the Making of south Africa, 1800-1850
1/01/98 → 31/12/98
Project: Research