Brokering empire [electronic resource] : trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul / E. Natalie Rothman.

By: Rothman, E. Natalie (Ella Natalie), 1976-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012Description: xx, 323 p. : ill., mapISBN: 9780801463112 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Venice (Italy) -- Relations -- Turkey -- Istanbul | Istanbul (Turkey) -- Relations -- Italy -- Venice | Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797 | Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.48/245311049618 LOC classification: DG676.97.T9 | R69 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Trans-imperial subjects as supplicants and as brokers -- Brokering commerce or making friends? -- Narrating transition -- Practicing conversion -- Making Venetian dragomans -- Articulating difference -- Levantines : genealogies of a category.
Summary: "Explores how diplomatic interpreters, converts, and commercial brokers mediated and helped define political, linguistic, and religious boundaries between the Venetian and Ottoman empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."--Author's Web site.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Trans-imperial subjects as supplicants and as brokers -- Brokering commerce or making friends? -- Narrating transition -- Practicing conversion -- Making Venetian dragomans -- Articulating difference -- Levantines : genealogies of a category.

"Explores how diplomatic interpreters, converts, and commercial brokers mediated and helped define political, linguistic, and religious boundaries between the Venetian and Ottoman empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."--Author's Web site.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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