Venetians in Constantinople
Eric R Dursteler
Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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Release Date: 22/12/2008
Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Moving beyond the 'clash of civilizations' model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, the author focuses on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople.
The introduction to this book is dazzling .The Venetian community in Constantinople provides an excellent site for exploration of issues of nation and identity .[Dursteler's] overall intention-to demonstrate cultural diversity in a place and era that has been commonly assumed to lack it-remains firmly at the fore, and he admirably fulfills his task.