Dr Colin Heywood is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull, UK.

• Contents: Preface; Part I Ottomanics: Aspects of the Köprülü Era: The shifting chronology of the Chyhyryn (Çehrin) campaign (1089/1678) according to the Ottoman literary sources, and the problem of the Ottoman calendar; All for love?: Lucca della Rocca and the betrayal of Grabusa (1691); A Buyuruldu of A.H. 1100 / A.D. 1689 for the dragomans of the English embassy at Istanbul; English self and Ottoman other in the late 17th century: Lord Paget at the Porte, 1692-1699; An undiplomatic Anglo-Dutch dispute at the Porte: the quarrel at Edirne between Coenraad van Heemskerck and Lord Paget (1693); Two firmans of Mustafa II on the reorganisation of the Ottoman courier system (1108/1696) (Documents from the Thessaloniki Cadi Sicills). Part II Between North Africa and Cyprus: Mediterranean Maritime Studies: An English merchant and consul-general in Algiers, c.1676-1712: Robert Cole and his circle; Anglo-Maghrebi shipbroking in North Africa in the late 17th Century: an Arabic document from Algiers (1094/1683); What’s in a name?: some Algerine fleet lists (1686-1714) from British libraries and archives; Ideology and the profit motive in the Algerine Corso: the strange case of the Isabella of Kirkcaldy, 1709-1714; A frontier without archaeology? The Ottoman maritime frontier in the Western Mediterranean, 1660-1760; Ottoman territoriality versus maritime usage: the Ottoman Islands and English privateering in the wars with France 1689-1714; ‘The economics of uncertainty’?: the French merchant community in Cyprus at the turn of the18th century; Fernand Braudel and the Ottomans: the emergence of an involvement (1928-50): Index.

'Heywood’s strength lies in his plumbing the depths of archival materials (mostly sources in English and Italian from the Public Record Office in London and other archives, but also documents in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic), and assembling various pieces of those materials to tell a story. One sees individuals and hears conversations in this work.' International Journal of Maritime History