Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) [Hardcover]

William Kelleher Storey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 10, 1998 | ISBN-10: 1580460151 | ISBN-13: 978-1580460156 | Edition: 1st ed

Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius examines, within the context of the history of sugarcane production in Mauritius, the cross-cultural debates about the production and dissemination of science and technology from "developed" to "less-developed" countries and from elites to peasants within these countries. The book also shows in great detail that the history of science, technology, and colonialism can shed light on contemporary problems in natural resource management and global policy making.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This book is admirable for the subtlety yet clarity of its argument, for the density of underlying archival research, and for the breadth of its historiographical span. --AGRICULTURAL HISTORY Very carefully researched...an exciting and original book. --COMMONWEALTH AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS Thoroughly researched and carefully constructed...Storey's monograph provides a valuable addition to the growing literature on processes central to the making of the modern world. --AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW (Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius) fills an important gap in the emerging historiographical literature on this little-known island. --HISTORY A rich and vivid history...may be read with profit by many kinds of historians. -ISIS --Various

Product Details

• Hardcover: 248 pages
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press; 1st ed edition (January 10, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580460151
• ISBN-13: 978-1580460156
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,110,341 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

William Kelleher Storey is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Millsaps College, where he has taught since 1999. Storey teaches classes about African History, World History, and the British Empire.

Storey was born in New York City in 1965 and grew up on Long Island. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1983 and went on to earn his bachelor's degree in history at Harvard University in 1987. He completed his master's degree in history in 1990 at the Johns Hopkins University, where he received his doctorate in 1993. After finishing his formal studies in history, Bill received further training during two postdoctoral fellowships. In 1994-5 he was an NSF Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. From 1995 to 1997 he was a Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University.

Professor Storey has a special interest in the history of environmental change, science, and technology. He is the author of four books. Two of them are based on research about environmental and technological aspects of imperialism: Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius (University of Rochester Press, 1997). He is also the author of Writing History: A Guide for Students (Oxford University Press, 1999; 2nd ed. 2003; 3rd ed. 2009), which draws on his undergraduate teaching about historical writing. His most recent book, The First World War: A Concise Global History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009) is based on a class that he teaches in the Core Curriculum at Millsaps. Storey is currently in the early stages of writing a biography of Cecil Rhodes from an environmental and technological perspective.

Storey has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship (1992), plus grants from the American Historical Association (1993); the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1997); the Mellon Foundation (2005); and the National Endowment for the Humanities (2004). The Society for the History of Technology has awarded him the Abbot Payson Usher Prize for the year's best journal article (2005) and the Sidney M. Edelstein Prize for the year's best book (2009). He has also received the Outstanding Young Faculty Award from Millsaps College (2003) and a Teaching Award from the Mississippi Humanities Council (2006).