Humanities and Social Sciences

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Dr David Dorward

Honorary Research Associate Room: David Myers Building E131 Tel: (61 3) 9479 2431 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942 Email: d.dorward@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: BA Union Coll., MA New Mexico State, PhD Lond.

Research interests: African History and Material Culture, African Economic History, Racism and Colonialism.

Research Project

Biography of a commercial agent in the Gold Coast (Ghana) and imperial marriage; The Evangelical Empire of Harry Grattan Guinness; The Role of the Crown Agents in the management of Colonial investment accounts.

Research Publications

• “Nigger Driver Brothers”; Australian Colonial Racism in the Early Gold Coast Mining Industry”, Ghana Studies V (2002) pp.197-214.
  
• "The Tragedy of Sierra Leone: Diamonds, Warlords and the Failure of the United Nations", in Pal Ahluwalia and Abebe Zegeye (eds.), African Identities: Comtemporary Political and Social Challenges, 2002.
  
• "Arthur London, Chief Agent of Swanzy and Co: a biography of imperial commerce on the Gold Coast", African Economic History, XXIX, 2001, pp.61-77.
  
• "South Africa: Democracy and Citizenship in a Plural Society", in Andrew Vandenberg (ed.), Citizenship and Democracy in a Global Era, 2000.
  
• "Images of the Other: An Australian experience of the Boer War", Kunapipi; Journal of Post-Colonial Writing, XII, 1, 2000, pp.71-80.
  
• "Major Tunbridge's Boer War Album; Glimpses of Empire and Erotica", in Pal Ahluwalia and Paul Nursey-Bray (eds.), Post-Colonialism: Culture and indentity in Africa, 1997.
  
• "Material Culture and the Constrution of 'the Other': Museums in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia and New Zealand", Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, II, 1996, pp.100-114.