Download or read book Brokering Empire written by E. Natalie Rothman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.