...Braudel set out to challenge the obsessive focus on national histories in early modern Europe. He argued that "the Turkish Mediterranean lived and breathed...identical problems and general trends if not identical consequences" (Braudel 1972a: 14). Braudel was unusual in blurring the boundaries between the Christian...

...Mediterranean region, as Braudel puts it, "I retain the firm conviction that the Turkish Mediterranean breathed with the same rhythms as the Christian, that...identical problems and general trends if not identical consequences" (Braudel 1976: 14). Hence, the ideal meeting point of the Mediterranean elicits the image...

...retain the firm conviction that the Turkish Mediterranean lived and breathed with the same rhythms äs the Christian, that the whole sea shared a common destiny, a heavy one indeed, with idenrical problems and general trends if not identical consequences. And the second is the greatness...

...women as they crisscrossed the Ottoman empire, this chapter endorses Fernand Braudel's "firm conviction that the Turkish Mediterranean lived and breathed...identical problems and general trends if not identical consequences."3 By the mid seventeenth century, the geopolitical triangulation whereby Protestant England...

...politics. As Braudel put it in his preface to the English translation, "I retain the firm conviction that the Turkish Mediterranean lived and breathed...identical problems and general trends if not identical consequences."21 " Fernand Braudel, On History, 201-02; Ecrits sur I'histoire, 291. 20 Fernand Braudel,...