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Author Rothman, E. Natalie (Ella Natalie), 1976-

Title Brokering empire : trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul / E. Natalie Rothman
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 323 pages) : illustrations, map
Series EBL-Schweitzer
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE.
International Relations / General.
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
International relations
Handel
Kulturaustausch
Regions & Countries - Europe.
History & Archaeology.
Italy.
SUBJECT Venice (Italy) -- Relations -- Turkey -- Istanbul
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Relations -- Italy -- Venice
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142724
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802
Subject Italy -- Venice
Turkey
Turkey -- Istanbul
Venedig
Osmanisches Reich
Venedig -- relationer -- historia -- Turkiet -- Istanbul.
Istanbul -- relationer -- historia -- Venedig.
Venedig -- historia -- 1500-talet -- 1600-talet -- 1700-talet.
Osmanska riket.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011037686
ISBN 0801463114
9780801463112
0801463122
9780801463129