The Ottoman World, the Mediterranean and North Africa, 1660–1760 (Variorum Collected Studies)

Dr Heywood’s second volume of collected papers in the Variorum series brings together fourteen studies published between 2000 and 2010. They represent two of the main strands of his interests during the past decade: the era of Ottoman history dominated by the ministerial family of KöprÃ1⁄4lÃ1⁄4; and the maritime history of the ’post-Braudelian’ Mediterranean, in the later 17th and early 18th centuries. Aspects of the KöprÃ1⁄4lÃ1⁄4 era under examination in Part One include the shifting chronology of the Çehrin campaign of 1678; a study of the role of renegades in Ottoman service, linked in this instance to the Venetian betrayal of the Cretan fortress of Grabusa to the Ottomans in 1691, and a study of the reorganisation of the Ottoman state courier service in 1696, together with three studies of English diplomacy at the Porte during the ’Long War’ of 1683-99. In Part Two maritime and Mediterranean themes predominate. Four papers revolve around the complexities of the English maritime and commercial presence in Algiers in the decades before and after 1700, and two examine the Ottoman maritime frontier in the western Mediterranean and in the Aegean in the same period. The volume concludes with a look at the daily (and mainly maritime) uncertainties in the life of the French community in Cyprus at the turn of the eighteenth century, and an examination of the emergence of Fernand Braudel’s intellectual involvement with Ottoman history, down to the publication in 1949 of his epochal study of the Mediterranean in the age of Philip II. Dr Heywoods second volume of collected papers in the Variorum series brings together fourteen studies published between 2000 and 2010. They represent two of the main strands of his interests during the past the era of Ottoman history dominated by the ministerial family of Koprulu and the maritime history of the 'post-Braudelian' Mediterranean, in the later 17th and early 18th centuries. Aspects of the Koprulu era under examination in Part One include the shifting chronology of the ehrin campaign of 1678; a study of the role of renegades in Ottoman service, linked in this instance to the Venetian betrayal of the Cretan fortress of Grabusa to the Ottomans in 1691, and a study of the reorganisation of the Ottoman state courier service in 1696, together with three studies of English diplomacy at the Porte during the Long War of 1683-99. In Part Two maritime and Mediterranean themes predominate. Four papers revolve around the complexities of the English maritime and commercial presence in Algiers in the decades before and after 1700, and two examine the Ottoman maritime frontier in the western Mediterranean and in the Aegean in the same period. The volume concludes with a look at the daily (and mainly maritime) uncertainties in the life of the French community in Cyprus at the turn of the eighteenth century, and an examination of the emergence of Fernand Braudels intellectual involvement with Ottoman history, down to the publication in 1949 of his epochal study of the Mediterranean in the age of Philip II. This Volume, The Second Of Mine To Appear In The Variorum 'collected Studies' Series, Continues From Where Its Predecessor Broke Off At The End Of The Twentieth Century, And Brings Together Fourteen Studies In Ottoman And Mediterranean History Which Were Published Between 2000 And 2009....the Fourteen Studies Collected Here Need Little By Way Of Introduction. Those In Part One...reflect My Ongoing Commitment To What May Be Termed Land-based Ottoman History, And In Particular To The Later Seventeenth Century And The Intricacies Of Anglo-ottoman Diplomacy In The Era Of The Köprülü Ascendency. In Contrast, A Number Of The Papers, And Particularly Most Of Those In Part Two...reflect My More Recent Involvement In The Historical And Historiographical Legacy Of The Great Historian Of The Early Modern Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel, As Refracted Through What May Be Termed...the 'post-braudelian' History Of The Mediterranean In The Seventeenth And Eigteenth Century.--preface, P. [ix]. Ottomanica : Aspects Of The Köprülü Era -- Between North Africa And Cyprus : Mediterranean Maritime Studies. Colin Heywood. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Dr Heywood’s second Variorum volume brings together 14 studies which represent two of the main strands of his interests: the era of Ottoman history dominated by the Koprulu family and the maritime history of the 'post-Braudelian' Mediterranean in the later 17th and early 18th centuries.