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 . - 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.


Electronic Books.

DG676.97.9