TY - BOOK AU - Rothman,E.Natalie TI - Brokering empire: trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul T2 - EBL-Schweitzer SN - 9780801463112 AV - DG676 .B765 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32749&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -