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About the Author

William Kelleher Storey is professor of history and director of the Core Curriculum at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He teaches and writes about world environmental history as well as the history of science, technology, and imperialism. He is the author of Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa (2008) and Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius (1997). He is also the author of Writing History: A Guide for Students (3rd ed., 2008), which he developed when teaching in Harvard’s Expository Writing Program. He has received a research and writing fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Abbott Payson Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology; and a Teacher’s Award from the Mississippi Humanities Council.