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Book Reviews 431 Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul. By e. natalie rothman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univer- sity Press, 2012. 323 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Natalie Rothman’s recent Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul is a welcome contribution to the scholarship that aims to understand the “connected histories” of the early modern Mediterranean world. It adds considerably to our understanding of the multilayered links of interaction between the early modern Mediterra- nean imperial entities, above all the proverbial link connecting Venice to Istanbul that figures at the core of this book. Rothman produces a remarkable historical analysis in reconstruct- ing the complex web of interconnections between Venice and Istanbul in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries through the lens of the very people who “straddled” the spheres represented by these powers. Bro- kering Empire is the story of those people who were the go-betweens of these two worlds: commercial brokers, religious converts, translators (dragomans), and others, which Rothman terms as “trans-imperial sub- jects.” It is highly commendable how Rothman engages with these sub- jects who mediated between the imperial entities of the early modern Mediterranean world. She traces the spatial and institutional trajec- tories along which they
Journal of World History – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Aug 12, 2013
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