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Brokering Empire Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul
Title
Brokering Empire [electronic resource] : Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul / E. Natalie Rothman.
ISBN
0801463114
9780801463112
9780801449079 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xx, 323 p.) : ill., map
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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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement VII.
Project MUSE - Archive History Supplement VII.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 29, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-314) and index.
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.
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