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Author Rothman, E. Natalie (Ella Natalie), 1976-

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

Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xx, 323 p. : ill., map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
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.
Subject Venice (Italy) -- Relations -- Turkey -- Istanbul.
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Relations -- Italy -- Venice.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797.
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780801449079 (cloth alk. paper)
9780801463112 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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