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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780801463112

Content: 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 interactions across linguistic, religious, and political lines these trans-imperial subjects helped to shape shifting imperial and cultural boundaries, including the emerging distinction between Europe and the Levant.Rothman argues that the period from 1570 to 1670 witnessed a gradual transformation in how Ottoman difference was conceived within Venetian institutions. Thanks in part to the activities of trans-imperial subjects, an early emphasis on juridical and commercial criteria gave way to conceptions of difference based on religion and language. Rothman begins her story in Venice's bustling marketplaces, where commercial brokers often defied the state's efforts both to tax foreign merchants and define Venetian citizenship. The story continues in a Venetian charitable institution where converts from Islam and Judaism and their Catholic Venetian patrons negotiated their mutual transformation. The story ends with Venice's diplomatic interpreters, the dragomans, who not only produced and disseminated knowledge about the Ottomans but also created dense networks of kinship and patronage across imperial boundaries. Rothman's new conceptual and empirical framework sheds light on institutional practices for managing juridical, religious, and ethnolinguistic difference in the Mediterranean and beyond.

Note: 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 , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9780801463112

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801463112

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Format: 1 online resource (346 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780801463112

Content: In Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontier.

Content: Intro -- 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? -- PART II. Conversion -- 3. Narrating Transition -- 4. Practicing Conversion -- PART III. Translation -- 5. Making Venetian Dragomans -- PART IV. Articulation -- 6. Articulating Difference -- 7. Levantines: Genealogies of a Category -- Afterword -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780801449079

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780801449079

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource : , illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)

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Content: In 'Brokering Empire' 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.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2011.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780801449079

Language: English

URL: Cornell scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource (343 p.)

ISBN: 0-8014-6312-2 , 0-8014-6311-4

Content: "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.

Note: First published 2012; First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2014. , 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. , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8014-7996-7

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8014-4907-3

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9780801463112