Brokering Empire : : Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul /

Brokering Empire : : Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul / / E. Natalie Rothman.

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In Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontier, including colonial migrants, redeemed slaves, merchants, commercial brokers, religious converts, and diplomatic interpreters. In their sustained inter...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Rothman, E. Natalie,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2014
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 9 halftones, 1 map, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Note on Usage, Names, and Dates
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Mediation
  • 1. Trans-Imperial Subjects as Supplicants and as Brokers
  • 2. Brokering Commerce or Making Friends?
  • PartT II. Conversion
  • 3. Narrating Transition
  • 4. Practicing Conversion
  • Part III. Translation
  • 5. Making Venetian Dragomans
  • 6. Articulating Diff erence
  • 7. Levantines: Genealogies of a Category
  • Afterword
  • Appendixes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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