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9%OFFNancy Um - The Merchant Houses of Mocha. Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port.  - 9780295989112 - V9780295989112
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The Merchant Houses of Mocha. Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port.

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Description for The Merchant Houses of Mocha. Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port. Paperback. Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. This book tells how and why Mocha's urban shape and architecture took the forms they did. Series: Donald R. Ellegood International Publications. Num Pages: 272 pages, 46 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBXY; 3JB; 3JD; AMX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.

Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop -- coffee. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the Ottomans in 1635, Mocha's trade turned eastward toward the Indian Ocean and coastal India. Merchants and shipowners from Asian, African, and European shores flocked to the city to trade in Arabian coffee and aromatics, Indian textiles, Asian spices, and silver from the New World.

Nancy Um tells how and why Mocha's ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Donald R. Ellegood International Publications
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295989112
SKU
V9780295989112
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Nancy Um
Nancy Um is associate professor of art history at Binghamton University in New York.

Reviews for The Merchant Houses of Mocha. Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port.
"Um demonstrates that Mocha's urban history is much richer than its link to a single commercial product. . . . Scholars like Um are breaking the unfortunate but long-lasting misassumption that pre-modern Arabian history is stagnant and devoid of source material."
Molly Patterson
MESA
"Um's call for a wider reexamining of secular architecture . . . is ... Read more

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