Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Proper Names and Dates -- Introduction -- ONE: The Shape of Empire -- TWO: Administrators of Empire -- THREE: Public Office and Patrician Family Strategies -- FOUR: Imperial Justice -- FIVE: Negotiating Empire -- SIX: Syndics, Prosecutions, and Scandal -- SEVEN: Fault Lines of Empire -- Appendix A. Offices in the Venetian Maritime State -- Appendix B. Genealogical Charts -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.