《The Birth of the Despot》是Cornell University Press出版的圖書，作者是Lucette Valensi
基本介紹
- 中文名：The Birth of the Despot
- 作者：Lucette Valensi
- 出版社：Cornell University Press
- 出版時間：1993年10月
- 定價：29.95 美元
- 裝幀：Hardcover
- ISBN：9780801424809
內容簡介
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. this book examines a crucial moment in the long and ambiguous encounter between the Christian and Islamic worlds: the period after the fall of Constant...(展開全部) 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. this book examines a crucial moment in the long and ambiguous encounter between the Christian and Islamic worlds: the period after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, when Venice's pursuit of its commercial and maritime interests brought two powerful protagonists--Venice and the Sublime Porte--face to face.
