Rothman, E. Natalie  1976- <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801463112 
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<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DG676  / .B765 2012