Maria Fusaro is Professor of History, University of Exeter. Colin Heywood is Research Associate at the Department of History, SOAS. Mohamed-Salah Omri is Tutorial Fellow in Modern Arabic at the University of Oxford.

• 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