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