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20160411035708.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780241003893 : (hbk.) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
IeDuRDS |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Edition number |
23 |
| Classification number |
909.09822 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Malcolm, Noel. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
8186 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Agents of empire : |
| Remainder of title |
knights, corsairs, Jesuits and spies in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Noel Malcolm. |
| 260 0# - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Allen Lane, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxv, 604 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Beginning with an archival discovery worthy of a Borges story, this book describes the paths taken through the eastern Mediterranean and its hinterland by an eminent Venetian-Albanian family, previously almost invisible to history. In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also many forms of peaceful interaction across the surprisingly porous frontiers of these opposing power-blocs. Agents of Empire describes the paths taken through the eastern Mediterranean and its European hinterland by members of a Venetian-Albanian family, almost all of them previously invisible to history. They include an archbishop in the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle of Lepanto, the power behind the throne in the Ottoman province of Moldavia, and a dragoman (interpreter) at the Venetian embassy in Istanbul. Through the life-stories of these adventurous individuals over three generations, Noel Malcolm casts the world between Venice, Rome and the Ottoman Empire in a fresh light, illuminating subjects as diverse as espionage, diplomacy, the grain trade, slave-ransoming and anti-Ottoman rebellion. He describes the conflicting strategies of the Christian powers, and the extraordinarily ambitious plans of the sultans and their viziers. Few works since Fernand Braudel's classic account of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean, published more than sixty years ago, have ranged so widely through this vital period of Mediterranean and European history. A masterpiece of scholarship as well as story-telling, Agents of Empire builds up a panoramic picture, both of Western power-politics and of the interrelations between the Christian and Ottoman worlds. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bruni, Antonio, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1598. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
108507 |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bruti, Bartolomeo, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1592. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
108508 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
East and West |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
16th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
108501 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Albania |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
16th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
108502 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Albania |
| General subdivision |
Relations |
| Geographic subdivision |
Italy |
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Venice. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
108503 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Venice (Italy) |
| General subdivision |
Relations |
| Geographic subdivision |
Albania. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
108504 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Mediterranean Region |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
16th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
108505 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Turkey |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
108506 |