The Birth of the Despot Venice and the Sublime Porte

by Lucette Valensi

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First edition

Hardcover, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993. First Edition. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Translated by Arthur Denner. In this 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. Ships same or next business

• Binding: Hardcover

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