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Norman R. Bennett
Personal
Born 31 Oct. 1932, Marlboro, MA
Married (Jeanne M. Penvenne); two children
Academic Record
A.B. (magna cum laude) Tufts University, 1954
M.A. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University), 1956
Ph.D. Boston University, 1961
Teaching Career
Boston University
Instructor in History,
1960-63
Assistant Professor of
History, 1963-67
Associate Professor of
History, 1967-70
Professor of History,
1970-present
Other Institutions
Lecturer, Cambridge
[Mass.] Center for Adult Education, 1957
Visiting Lecturer,
Kivukoni College, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1962-63
Visiting Lecturer,
University College, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1962-63
Visiting Assistant
Professor, Summer Institute on African History, Yale University,
1965
Visiting Scholar,
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, 1977
Other Professional Activities
Editor, African Studies Bulletin (Journal of the African Studies
Association), 1967-70
Editor, International Journal of African Historical Studies,
1968-present
Chair, Archives Committee, African Studies Association, 1962
Vice-president, African Studies Association, 1979-80
President, African Studies Association, 1980-81
Correspondant, Classe des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Academie
Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Bruxelles, Belgium, 1979-present.
International Editorial Advisory Board Portuguese Studies Review,
1992-present
Conselho de Redacção, Douro: Estudos e Documentos [Porto],
1996-present.
Fellowships
Scholar in History, Princeton University, 1954-55
African Program Fellow, Boston University, 1956-58
Ford Foundation Africa Training Grant, 1958-60
Smith-Mundt Teaching Fellowship (Tanzania), 1962-63
American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1966
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Fellowships, 1983-84, 1991
Consultant [travel award, 1996] for a successful NEH grant to a
University of California, Berkeley, group of scholars project
entitled “Producing Families - Trading in History [relating to the
port wine trade].
Publications
Books
Studies in East African History. Boston: Boston University Press,
1963. 93 pages.
Mirambo of Tanzania, 1840?-1884. New York: Oxford University Press,
1971. 191 pages.
Africa and Europe from Roman Times to the Present. New York:
Africana Publishing Co. (Holmes & Meier Publishers), 1975. 246
pages.
A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar. London: Methuen & Co.,
1978. 304 pages.
Africa and Europe from Roman Times to National Independence. Second
edition, revised. New York: Africana Publishing Co. (Holmes and
Meier Publishers), 1984. 207 pages.
Arab Versus European in Nineteenth Century East Central Africa: A
Study in Diplomacy and War. New York: Africana Publishing Co.
(Holmes and Meier Publishers), 1986. 335p.
Edited and Annotated Studies
New England Merchants in Africa: A History through Documents,
1802-1856. Boston: Boston University Press, 1965. Co-author, George
E. Brooks, Jr. 609 pages.
From Zanzibar to Ujiji: The Journal of Arthur W. Dodgshun,
1877-1879. Boston: Boston University African Studies Center, 1969.
158 pages.
Stanley’s Despatches to the New York Herald, 1871- 1872, 1874-1877.
Boston: Boston University Press, 1970. 548 pages.
The Central African Journal of Lovell J. Proctor, 1860-1864. Boston:
Boston University African Studies Program, 1971. Co-author,
Marguerite Ylvisaker. 519 pages.
The Zanzibar Letters of Edward D. Ropes, Jr., 1882-1892. Boston:
Boston University African Studies Center, 1973. 160 pages.
Edited Volumes
Reconstructing African Culture History. Boston: University Press,
1967. Co-editor, Creighton Gabel.
Leadership in Eastern Africa: Six Political Biographies. Boston:
Boston University Press, 1968.
Eastern African History. New York: F.A. Praeger, 1969. Co-editors,
Daniel F. McCall & Jeffrey Butler.
Western African History. New York: F.A. Praeger, 1969. Co-editors,
Daniel F. McCall & Jeffrey Butler.
Aspects of West African Islam. Boston: Boston University African
Studies Center, 1971. Co-editor, Daniel F. McCall.
Discovering the African Past: Essays in Honor of Daniel F. McCall.
Boston University African Studies Center (Papers on Africa, VIII),
1987. 150 pages.
Bibliography
The Arab State of Zanzibar: A Bibliography. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co.,
1984. 248 pages.
Articles & Pamphlets
“Americans in Zanzibar: 1825-1845,” Essex Institute Historical
Collections, XCV(1959), 239-62. Reprinted in Tanganyika Notes and
Records, 56(1961), 93-108.
“Captain Storms in Tanganyika, 1882-1885,” Tanganyika Notes and
Records, 54(1960), 51-63.
“Christian and Negro Slavery in Eighteenth Century North Africa,”
The Journal of African History, I(1960), 65-82.
“Some Letters of J.L. Krapf,” Boston University Graduate Journal,
9(1960), 45-58.
“Americans in Zanzibar: 1845-1865,” Essex Institute Historical
Collections, XCVII(1961), 31-56. Reprinted in Tanganyika Notes and
Records, 57(1962), 121-38.
“Americans in Zanzibar: 1865-1915,” Essex Institute Historical
Collections, XCVIII(1962), 36-61. Revised and reprinted in
Tanganyika Notes and Records, 60(1963), 49-66.
“Materials for African History in the Peabody Museum and Essex
Institute,” African Studies Bulletin, V, 3(1962), 13-22. Co-authors,
George E. Brooks, Jr., & Alan R. Booth.
“Some Notes on French Policy in Buganda and East Africa, 1879-1890,”
Makerere Journal, 6(1962), 1-17.
“A Journey across Tanganyika in 1886,” Tanganyika Notes and Records,
58 & 59 (1962), 129-47. Co-author, Per Hassing.
“William H. Hathorne: Merchant and Consul in Zanzibar,” Essex
Institute Historical Collections, XCIX(1963), 117-46.
“Philippe Broyon: Pioneer Trader in East Africa,” African
Affairs, 62(1963), 156-64.
“Stanley and the American consuls at Zanzibar,” Essex Institute
Historical Collections, C(1964), 41-58.
“The Church Missionary Society at Mombasa, 1873-1894,” Boston
University Papers in African History, 1(1964), 157-94.
“The British on Kilimanjaro, 1884-1892,” Tanganyika Notes and
Records, 63(1964), 43-52.
“Charles de Vienne and the Frere Mission to Zanzibar,” Boston
University Papers on Africa, 2(1966), 109-21.
“The London Missionary Society at Urambo: 1878-1898,”
Tanzania Notes and Records, 65(1966), 43-52.
“African Studies in the United States,” African Studies Bulletin,
10(1967), 62-102.
“Peabody Museum and Essex Institute,” in Peter Duignan, ed.,
Handbook of American Resources for African Studies (Stanford: Hoover
Institution Bibliographical Series 29, 1967), pp. 110-16.
Co-authors: Susan J. Herlin, George E. Brooks, Jr., and Alan R.
Booth.
“African Studies in the United States,” African Studies Bulletin,
11(1968), 83-127.
A Study Guide for Tunisia (Development Program, African Studies
Center, Boston University, 1968).
A Study Guide for Morocco (Development Program, African Studies
Center, Boston University, 1968).
“Mwinyi Kheri,” in Norman R. Bennett, ed., Leadership in Eastern
Africa: Six Political Biographies (Boston: Boston University Press,
1968), pp. 139-64.
“The East African Slave Trade,” in T.O. Ranger, ed., Emerging Themes
of African History (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1986),
pp. 141-46. Translated as “La Traite des Noirs en Afrique
Orientale,” in Engelbert Mveng, ed., Perspectives Nouvelles
L’Histoire Africaine (Paris: Presence Africaine, 1971), pp. 159-64.
“Livingstone’s Letters to William F. Stearns,” African Historical
Studies, 1(1968), 243-54.
“The Arab Impact,” in B.A. Ogot & J.A. Kieran, eds., Zamani: A
Survey of East African History (Nairobi: East African Publishing
House and Longmans of Kenya, 1968), pp. 216-37.
“France and Zanzibar, 1775-1844,” Boston University Papers on
Africa, 3(1969), l48-75.
“African Studies in the United States,” African Studies Bulletin,
12(1969), 35-80.
“Introduction to the Second Edition,” in Alfred J. Swann, Fighting
the Slave-Hunters in Central Africa (London: Frank Cass & Co.,
1969), pp. vii-xlvii.
“Dodgshun, the London Missionary Society, and the Effort to Solve
the Transportation Problems of Nineteenth-Century East Africa,” in
Norman R. Bennett, ed., From Zanzibar to Ujiji: The Journal of
Arthur W. Dodgshun, 1877-1879 (Boston: African Studies Center,
Boston University, 1969), pp. vii-xxiv.
“David Livingstone: Exploration for Christianity,” in Robert I.
Rotberg, ed., Africa and Its Explorers: Motives, Methods, and Impact
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970), pp. 39-61.
“The Arab Impact,” in B.A. Ogot, Zamani: A Survey of East African
History, second edition (Nairobi: East African Publishing House and
Longmans of Kenya, 1974), pp.210-28.
“France and Zanzibar, 1844 to the 1860s,” International Journal of
African Historical Studies, 6(1973), 602-32; 7(1974), 27-55.
“Isike, Ntemi of Unyanyembe,” in Mark Karp, ed., African Dimensions:
Essays in Honor of William O. Brown (Boston: Boston University
African Studies Center, 1975), pp. 53-67.
“Africa and Europe [a review article],” International Journal of
African Historical Studies, 13(1980), 690-98.
“Zanzibar, Portugal, and Mozambique: Relations from the Late
Eighteenth Century to 1890,” in Norman R. Bennett, ed., Discovering
the African Past: Essays in Honor of Daniel F. McCall (Boston
University African Studies Center (Papers on Africa, VIII),
1987), 33-51. Also published as a Boston University African
Studies Center Working Papers in African Studies, no. 123 (1987).
Translated as “Zanzibar, Portugal e Moçambique: Relações dos Fins do
Século Dezoito ate 1890,” Revista Internacional de Estudos
Africanos, 6-7(1987), 9-36.
“The Golden Age of the Port Wine System, 1781-1807,” The
International History Review, 12(1990), 221-248.
“The Vignerons of the Douro and the Peninsular War,” The Journal of
European Economic History, 21 (1992), 7-29.
“The Wine Growers of the Upper Douro, 1780-1800,” Portuguese Studies
Review, 2, 1 (1992-93), 28-45.
“The Port Wine System in the 1890s,” The International History
Review, 16 (1994), 251-266.
“Port Wine Merchants: Sandeman in Porto, 1813-1831,” The Journal of
European Economic History, 24 (1995), 239-269.
Papers Read at Professional Meetings
“The Arab-German War of 1888 on the Tanganyika Coast,” African
Studies Association Annual Meeting, New York, 1961
“Mirambo,” The Tanganyika Society, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1962
“France and East Africa,” African Studies Association Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, 1963
“The East African Slave Trade,” African Studies Association Annual
Meeting, Philadelphia, 1965 (read in absentia)
“Isike of the Nyamwezi,” African Studies Association Annual Meeting,
Bloomington, 1966
“Mirambo, War Lord of Central Tanzania,” American Historical
Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, 1967
“The French in East Africa during the Nineteenth Century,” American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, 1968
“Eastern Africa and the United States to World War I,” American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, 1970
“Mozambique and Zanzibar, c. 1790-1890,” African Studies Association
Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 1978
“The Wine Producers of the Upper Douro River, 1780-1815,” Twentieth
Annual Duquesne University History Forum, Pittsburgh, 1986
“The Vignerons of the Douro and the Peninsula War,” International
Congress on the Iberian Peninsula (1780-1840), Lisbon, Portugal,
July 1989.
“The Viticultors of the Upper Douro, 1780-1815,” International
Conference Group on Portugal Meeting, Durham, N.H., September 1989
“Sandeman and Port Wine during the Nineteenth Century: the Letters
of Frederic T. Cobb, 1860-1877,” Congresso: O Porto na Epoca
Contemporanea, Ateneu Comercial do Porto [Portugal], October 1989
“Troubled Times: The Wine Trade and Porto during the 1890s,”
Congresso: O Porto de Fim do Século (1880-1910), Ateneu Comercial do
Porto, February 1991
“Port Wine in Anglo-Portuguese Diplomacy from the End of the
Eighteenth Century to 1890,” International Conference Group on
Portugal Conference, Cambridge University, September 1994
“Crisis in the Port Wine System: The 1850s and 1860s,” International
Conference Group on Portugal Meeting, Durham, N.H., October 1995
“The Port Wine System from the 1830s to the 1850: War and
Reorganization,” O I Encontro Interncional “História da Vinha e do
Vinho no Vale do Douro”, Porto, March 1996
Other Professional Meeting Activity
Chair, History Panel, African Studies Association Annual Meeting,
Chicago, 1964
Chair, African Biographies Panel, African Studies Association Annual
Meeting, Bloomington, 1966
Commentator, Africa and the United States Panel, Organization of
American Historians Annual Meeting, Dallas, 1968
Chair, Africa and the United States to World War I Panel, American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, 1970
Commentator, Studies in the Slave Trade Panel, African Studies
Association Annual Meeting, Denver, 1971
Chair, Regulatory Controls in Africa Panel, African Studies
Association Annual Meeting, Denver, 1971
Panelist, The Role of Regional Organizations in Serving the Needs of
Teachers and Researchers in African Studies Panel, African Studies
Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 1972
Chair, The Revolutionary Years in the Nineteenth Century in Africa
Panel, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
1972
Chair, Metropolitan-Local Administrative Conflict in Colonial Africa
Panel, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Syracuse, 1973
Chair, Europe and Colonial Africa Panel, New England Historical
Association Annual Meeting, Providence, 1974
Chair, African History Panel, New England Historical Association
Annual Meeting, Fitchburg, 1983
Chair, Portuguese History before 1850 Panel, International
Conference Group on Portugal Meeting, Durham, N.H., September 1989
Chair, Portugal and Britain during the 19th Century Panel,
International Conference Group on Portugal Meeting, Cambridge
University, September 1994
Chair, 19th Century Portugal and Port Wine Panel, International
Conference Group on Portugal Meeting, Durham, N.H., October 1995
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