...Mediterranean region. I retain the firm conviction", he wrote, "that the Turkish Mediterranean lived and breathed with the same rhythms as the Christian, that...identical problems and general trends if not identical consequences."The historian of the Indian Ocean must ask himself whether a similar claim is valid for...

...Chaudhuri has for the Indian Ocean (Braudel 1972—3; Chaudhuri 1985). To Braudel the whole Mediterranean 'shared a common destiny, a heavy one indeed, with...general trends if not identical consequences' (Braudel 1972—3: I, 14). For Chaudhuri, long distance trade, the monsoon climatic system, and broadly similar...

...focus on national histories in early modern Europe. He argued that "the Turkish Mediterranean lived and breathed with the same rhythms as the Christian, that...general trends if not identical consequences" (Braudel 1972a: 14). Braudel was unusual in blurring the boundaries between the Christian and Muslim Mediterraneans....

...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...

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

...to the English translation, "I retain the firm conviction that the Turkish Mediterranean lived and breathed with the same rhythms as the Christian, that...identical problems and general trends if not identical consequences."21 " Fernand Braudel, On History, 201-02; Ecrits sur I'histoire, 291. 20 Fernand Braudel,...