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SUMMARY:Toward a Comparative History of the Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:<p>	<strong>The CMES Director's Series </strong>is pleased to present</p><p>	<strong><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="55f46f6b-8fb1-4b38-9b02-0f1dbc2cd68f" data-align="right" alt="The Ethnographic State book cover" data-view-mode="hwp_small"></drupal-media></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="8cb029fb-ec7b-46f6-b390-9c3a2302ddb7" data-align="right" alt="Terry Burke" data-view-mode="hwp_small"></drupal-media><span style="color: #000000;">E</span></span></strong><strong>dmund ("Terry") Burke III</strong><br>Professor <em>Emeritus</em> of History and Founder (former Director), Center for World History, University of California, Santa Cruz<!--break--></p><p>	Professor 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 <span style="color: red;">The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam </span>(California, 2014). Other recent works include <em>World History: The Big Eras</em> (with David G. Christian and Ross E. Dunn (Los Angeles, 2011); <em>The Environment and World History</em> (with Kenneth Pomeranz) (California, 2009), and <em>Genealogies of Orientalism: History, Theory, Politics</em> (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 in the <em>Journal of World History</em> (2013) 23:4 provides an over-view of his lecture.<br><br> </p><p>	<strong>Contact:</strong> <a href="mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu">Liz Flanagan</a></p>
LOCATION:CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA
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