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Brokering empire

by Rothman, E. Natalie
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Cornell University Press, (Ithaca :) Physical details: xx, 323 p. : ill., map.
Subject(s): Venice (Italy) -- Relations -- Turkey -- Istanbul. | Istanbul (Turkey) -- Relations -- Italy -- Venice. | Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797. | Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. | Electronic books.
Year: 2012
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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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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