The Birth of the Despot : Venice and the Sublime Porte /
"In an elegant and graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines a crucial moment in the long and...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
[1993]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Overture
- PART ONE
- Judith
- Holofernes
- In the Heart of the Seraglio
- The Prophecy of Daniel
- Chorus
- PART TWO
- "Greater tyranny the world has never seen or imagined"
- At the Sublime Porte
- The Abduction fro the Seraglio
- Finale
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index