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Peiresc’s Mediterranean World

Peter N. Miller

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Publication Date: 10/30/2017

640 pages

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Note on the Text
Introduction
1. Prologue: Algiers, June 1932
2. Marseille-Aix
3. Marseille and the French Mediterranean
4. Contingency
5. Peiresc’s Letters
6. Writing to the Levant, 1626–1637
7. Peiresc’s Names, or, On Reading the Namescape
8. The Problem of Detail
9. The Postal Link
10. The Last Mile (Mule Is King)
11. Marseille’s Merchants
12. Marseille’s Merchant Families
13. Financing, Disbursing, Reimbursing
14. Sanson Napollon
15. Naturalizing Merchants
16. North Africans in Marseille
17. Northerners in the Mediterranean
18. Ship’s Captains and Patrons
19. Tasks Entrusted to Captains
20. Port Practices: Packaging—Plague—Quarantine
21. Setting Sail
22. Merchant Routes
23. Mapping the Mediterranean
24. Sicily
25. People in Motion
26. Ottoman Empire News
27. Time and Timings
28. Corsairs
29. Ransoming
30. End Points
31. Merchants as Intellectual Partners
32. Before Statistik
33. Peiresc’s Mixing in Cairo’s Consular Politics
34. Peiresc and Travel
35. Where Mediterranean Meets Orient: Ethiopia, India, Yemen
36. At the Still Point
Appendix A. Peiresc in History, 1637–1932
Appendix B. Peiresc’s Letters to the Levant, 1627–1637, Analyzed
Appendix C. Patrons and Captains
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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