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Brokering empire : trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul / E. Natalie Rothman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rothman, E. Natalie (Ella Natalie), 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers--Mediterranean Region--16th century.
- Travelers.
- Travelers--Mediterranean Region--17th century.
- Venice (Italy)--Relations--Turkey--Istanbul.
- Venice (Italy).
- Istanbul (Turkey)--Relations--Italy--Venice.
- Istanbul (Turkey).
- Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797.
- Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- Other Title:
- Trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- First published 2012; First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2014.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-314) and index.
- Description based on print version.
- ISBN:
- 9780801463129
- 0801463122
- 9780801463112
- 0801463114
- OCLC:
- 1080552149
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