Selected Published and Unpublished Essays

Edmund Burke III

1. Morocco and Maghreb

 “Morocco and the Near East:  Reflections on Some Basic Differences,” European Journal of Sociology (Paris), X (1969), 70-94.

“The Moroccan Ulama, 1860-1912:  An Introduction,” in Nikki Keddie (ed.), Scholars, Saints and Sufis:  Muslim Religious Institutions Since 1500 (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London:  University of California Press, 1972), 93-125.

Ihtijaj w l muqabala, British India and the Origins of the Moroccan Protectorate,” Hesperis-Tamuda 49 (2014), 1-20.

2. Orientalism & Empire

“The Sociology of Islam: The French Tradition.”  In E. Burke and D. Prochaska, eds. Genealogies of Orientalism: History, Theory, Politics (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 154-173.

“Orientalism: From Post-Colonial Theory to World History” in E. Burke and D. Prochaska eds. Genealogies of Orientalism: History, Theory, Politics (Nebraska, 2008), 1-42.

“Orientalism and World History: Representing Middle Eastern Nationalism and Islamism in the Twentieth Century,” Theory & Society, vol. 27/4 (August 1998), 589-607.

“Theorizing the Histories of Colonialism and Nationalism in the Arab Maghrib.”  In: Ali Ahmida, ed. Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in North Africa (London: St. Martin’s, 2001).

 

3. Social Movements

“The Moroccan Colonial Archive and the Hidden History of Moroccan Resistance,” The Maghreb Review 40:1 (2014), 108-121.

“Understanding Arab Social Movements,” Arab Studies Quarterly, 8 (Fall 1986), 333-345. 

“Rural Collective Action and the Emergence of Modern Lebanon: A Comparative Historical Perspective,” in Nadim Shehadi and Dana H. Mills (eds.) Lebanon: A History of Conflict and Consensus (Oxford: Centre for Lebanese Studies and I.B. Tauris, 1988), 14-30.

 

4. World History 

“Islam at the Center: Technology Complexes and the Roots of Modernity,” Journal of World History 20:2 (June 2009), 165-186.

“Modernity’s Histories: Rethinking the Long Nineteenth Century,” (UC World History Workshop Conference, 2000).

The Sixteenth Century World War and the Roots of the Modern World: A View From the Edge.”  In Alan Karras and Laura J. Mitchell, eds.  Encounters Old and New in World History (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016), 66-77.

 

5. Marshall Hodgson

“Islamic History as World History:  Marshall Hodgson and The Venture of Islam,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, X, 2 (1979), 241-264.

”There is No Orient’: Hodgson and Said,” Review of Middle Eastern Studies, 44,1 (2010), 13-19.

“Marshall Hodgson: Then and Now,” Sosyoloji Dergisi / Turkish Journal of Sociology 38: 2 (2019), 1-12.

 

6. Environmental History

“The Big Story: Human History, Energy Regimes and the Environment” In E. Burke III and K. L. Pomeranz (eds.) The Environment and World History, 1500-2000 (UC Press, 2009), 33-53.

“The Transformation of the Middle Eastern Environmental: 3000 B.C.E – 2000 C.E.,” (In E. Burke III and K. L. Pomeranz (eds.) The Environment and World History, 1500-2000 (UC Press, 2009), 81-117.  

“Climate Change and World History: Plotting the Way Forward,” Asian Review of WorldHistories 3:2 (July 2015), 255-264.

 

7. Struggle & Survival in the Middle East/Social Biographies

“What is a Social Biography?” + “Writing Social Biographies” (Center for World History, unpublished paper 2004). 

 “Mohand N’Hamoucha, Middle Atlas Berber,” in E. Burke, III (ed.) Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East (Berkeley: University of California Press and Oxford: I.B. Tauris, 1993), 100-113).

“The Mediterranean Before Colonialism: Fragments from the Life of ‘Ali bin ‘Uthman al-Hammi (late 18th-19th centuries).”  In Julia Clancy-Smith ed. North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World London: Frank Cass, 2001), 129-142.

 

8. The Mediterranean in the Making of World History

“Towards a Comparative History of the Modern Mediterranean, 1750-1919,” Journal of World History vol. 4 no. 4 (2013), 907-938.

“Wanted: A Comparative History of the Modern Mediterranean,” Revue of Middle Eastern Studies (2012), 47-53.

“Modernité,” in Dionigi Albera, Maryline Crivello and Mohamed Tozy, eds. Dictionnaire de la Mediterrannee (Marseille: Actes Sud, 2016), 950-966.