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Peiresc's Mediterranean World /
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc was the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. His insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge. Mining his 70,000-page archive, Peter N. Miller recovers a lost Medite...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2015]
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| Edición: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- Appendixes
- 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