Title: Brokering empire : trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul /
Authors: Rothman, E. Natalie 1976-
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Venice (Italy) Relations Turkey Istanbul.; Istanbul (Turkey) Relations Italy Venice.; Venice (Italy) History; Turkey History
Abstract: "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.
Contents: 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.