#  CMES Director's Series: "Toward a Comparative History of the Modern Mediterranean" - Edmund (Terry) Burke III 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 20, 2014** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge MA**  



 

 



 

**The CMES Director's Series** is pleased to present:

   ![tburke_image.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/history/files/tburke_image.jpg?itok=kJWQ5g7L) 

 

 **![burke_ethnographic_book_cover_for_web2.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/history/files/burke_ethnographic_book_cover_for_web2.jpg?itok=_th9L65-)** [**Edmund ("Terry") Burke III**](http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3713)  
Professor *Emeritus* of History and Founder (former Director), Center for World History, University of California, Santa CruzProfessor Burke is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on Middle East and North African history, orientalism, environmental history and world history. Most recently he has written [*The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam*](http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/files/burke_ethnographic%20book%20flyer.pdf) (California, 2014). Other recent works include *World History: The Big Eras* (with David G. Christian and Ross E. Dunn (Los Angeles, 2011); *The Environment and World History* (with Kenneth Pomeranz) (California, 2009), and *Genealogies of Orientalism: History, Theory, Politics* (with David Prochaska) (Nebraska, 2008). Burke is currently at work on a book on the origins of Mediterranean modernity in eco-historical perspective. A [recent article](http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/files/burke.Med_.JWH_.vol23.no_.4.2013.pdf) in the *Journal of World History* (2013) 23:4 provides an over-view of his lecture.

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