Maria Fusaro is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter. Colin Heywood is Honorary Research Fellow, Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull. Mohamed-Salah Omri is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Washington University in St. Louis.

'All historians of early modern Europe have a lot to learn from this book. Its themes of cultural, economic, religious and sometimes violent interaction in a world of shifting and ill-defined boundaries and of many languages powerfully evoke a Mediterranean in which the need to do business with others constantly dissolved the rigidities of difference and produced a broad capacity for intercultural tolerance of a loose and pragmatic sort.' - Glenn Burgess, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor of Early Modern History, The University of Hull; 'This exemplary and much needed volume returns the Mediterranean Sea to centre-stage. Rather than focusing on the Mediterranean as an icon, this book takes the Mediterranean of Braudel as a physical reality, with its commerce, human traffic and trafficking, disease, sailors and trade. It reminds and instructs historians and others of the physical and human realities, small-scale and large, of which grand ideas are made and with which they must remain connected. It is indeed the homage that Fernand Braudel would have wanted.' - Cornell Fleischer, Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies, The University of Chicago

• 1. Introduction: After Braudel: a Reassessment of Mediterranean History between the Northern Invasion and the Caravane Maritime, 2. The English in the Mediterranean, 1600-1630: A Post-Braudelian Perspective on the ‘Northern Invasion’'3. Plague and Seafaring in the Ottoman Mediterranean in the Eighteenth Century 4. In the Regency of Algiers: the Human Side of the Algerine Corso5. Histories and Memories of Slaves in the Mediterranean World6. The Maghariba and the Sea: Decline of Maritime North Africa in the Early Modern Period7. Sacra Militia, the Order of St John: Crusade, Corsairing and Trade in Rhodes and Malta, 1460-1631 8. Maritime Caravans and the Knights of Saint John: A History of Mediterranean Seaborne Traffic during Early Modern Times 9. Victims of Piracy: Ottoman Lawsuits in Malta (1602-1687) and the Changing Course of Mediterranean Maritime History10. The Greek-Ottoman fleet and Spanish Maritime Trade in the 18th Century 11. ‘The “Eastern invasion”: the Greeks in Mediterranean Trade and Shipping in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries12. Rewriting the Sea from the Desert Shore: Equine and Equestrian Perspectives on a New Maritime History 13. Conclusions: Representing the Early-modern Mediterranean in Contemporary North Africa