The birth of the Despot : Venice and the Sublime Porte /
"In an elegant and graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines a crucial moment in the long and...
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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University Press,
1993.
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