TY - BOOK AU - Rothman,E.Natalie ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Brokering empire: trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul AV - DG676.97.T9 R69 2012 U1 - 303.48/245311049618 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Venice (Italy) KW - Relations KW - Turkey KW - Istanbul KW - Istanbul (Turkey) KW - Italy KW - Venice KW - History KW - 1508-1797 KW - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries N2 - "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 UR - http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aitie/detail.action?docID=3138287 ER -