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 .
- ACLS Humanities E-Book Series. .
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.
In English.
0801463114 9780801463112
10.7591/9780801463112 doi
Venice (Italy)--Relations--Turkey--Istanbul. Istanbul (Turkey)--Relations--Italy--Venice. Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797. Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.