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.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2012.
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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.