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Brokering Empire : Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul /

"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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rothman, E. Natalie (Ella Natalie), 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.