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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808958303321

Autore

Rothman E. Natalie (Ella Natalie), <1976->

Titolo

Brokering empire : trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul / / E. Natalie Rothman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, N.Y., : Cornell University Press, 2014

ISBN

0-8014-6312-2

0-8014-6311-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/245311049618

Soggetti

Travelers - Mediterranean Region - 16th century

Travelers - Mediterranean Region - 17th century

HISTORY / Europe / Italy

Venice (Italy) Relations Turkey Istanbul

Istanbul (Turkey) Relations Italy Venice

Venice (Italy) History 1508-1797

Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2012; First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2014.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-314) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.