Brokering empire trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul /

"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.

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Rothman, E. Natalie (Ella Natalie), 1976-
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
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Online toegang:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.