Algiers, June 1932
Marseille-Aix
Marseille and the French Mediterranean
Peiresc's letters
Contingency
Writing to the Levant 1627-1637
Peiresc's names, or, On reading the namescape
The problem of detail
The postal link
The last mile (Mule is king)
Marseille's merchants
Marseille merchant families
Financing, disbursing, reimbursing
Sanson Napollon
Naturalizing merchants
North Africans in Marseille
Northerners in the Mediterranean
Ships' captains and patrons
Tasks entrusted to captains
Port practices : packaging-plague-quarantine
Setting sail
Merchant routes
Mapping the Mediterranean
Sicily
People in motion
Ottoman Empire news
Time and timings
Corsairs
Ransoming
End points
Merchants as intellectual partners
Before Statistik
Peiresc's mixing in Cairo's consular politics
Peiresc and travel
Where Mediterranean meets Orient : Ethiopia, India, Yemen
At the still point
Appendices.