01999nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10518916 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110907s2012 nyuab sb 001 0 eng d 2011037686 9780801449079 (cloth alk. paper) 9780801463112 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)769850835 e-it--- a-tu--- DG676.97.T9 R69 2012eb 303.48/245311049618 23 Rothman, E. Natalie (Ella Natalie), 1976- Brokering empire [electronic resource] : trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul / E. Natalie Rothman. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012. xx, 323 p. : ill., map. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. "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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Venice (Italy) Relations Turkey Istanbul. Istanbul (Turkey) Relations Italy Venice. Venice (Italy) History 1508-1797. Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10518916 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 236524 236524