Works
The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in May 2025).
Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902) migrated from England to South Africa at the age of seventeen and made a fortune in diamond-mining and gold-mining. As the prime minister of the Cape Colony, he promoted racially discriminatory legislation. His British South Africa Company governed Zambia and Zimbabwe through trickery and terror. While developing farms and mines, he dreamt of building a railroad infrastructure that reached from Cape Town to Cairo. His decisions in business and politics had a lasting impact on Southern Africa.
The First World War: A Concise Global History (Rowman & Littlefield, third edition, 2020).
In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors, such as food, geography, manpower, and weapons.
Writing History: A Guide for Students (Oxford University Press, sixth edition, 2020).
Using examples from the works of practicing historians, Writing History: A Guide for Students, leads undergraduate writers through the process of developing, researching, and composing an original historical essay.