Rothman, E. Natalie 1976-

Brokering empire trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul / [electronic resource] : E. Natalie Rothman. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012. - xx, 323 p. : ill., map.

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






Venice (Italy)--Relations--Turkey--Istanbul.
Istanbul (Turkey)--Relations--Italy--Venice.
Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797.
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.


Electronic books.

DG676.97.T9 / R69 2012

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