Brokering empire : trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul /
Rothman, E. Natalie 1976-
Brokering empire : trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul / E. Natalie Rothman. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xx, 323 pages) : illustrations, map - EBL-Schweitzer .
Includes bibliographies 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.
9780801463112
Electronic Books.
DG676 / .B765 2012
Brokering empire : trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul / E. Natalie Rothman. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xx, 323 pages) : illustrations, map - EBL-Schweitzer .
Includes bibliographies 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.
9780801463112
Electronic Books.
DG676 / .B765 2012