Brokering empire
Subtitle: trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul
By: E. Natalie Rothman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780801449079
Subjects: Relations; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trans-imperial subjects as supplicants and as brokers; title: Brokering commerce or making friends?; title: Narrating transition; title: Practicing conversion; title: Making Venetian dragomans; title: Articulating difference; title: Levantines : genealogies of a category.