- 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


Peiresc’s Mediterranean World
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