Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Braudel's Maritime Legacy: 67 (International Library of Historical Studies) - Hardcover

'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

"The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II" by Fernand Braudel revolutionised the study of Mediterranean history on its publication in 1949. Now, 60 years 'after Braudel', this book brings together work by area specialists and the latest research on the sea itself in the early modern period, the maritime trade that flourished there, the ships which travelled it and the men who sailed them. It opens up the subject to English-speaking readers interested in maritime history, naval history, the history of the early modern world and the historiographical legacy of Braudel.