The merchant houses of Mocha : trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port

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The merchant houses of Mocha : trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port

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trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port

Statement of responsibility

Nancy Um

Creator

• Um, Nancy

Subject

• 1600 - 1799
• ARCHITECTURE -- History | General
• Architecture and merchants
• Architecture and merchants -- Yemen (Republic) | Mukhā -- History -- 17th century
• Architecture and merchants -- Yemen (Republic) | Mukhā -- History -- 18th century
• Architektur
• Buildings
• Commerce
• Geschichte 1650-1750
• HISTORY -- Middle East -- General
• Handel
• Handelsgesellschaft
• History
• Mokka
• Mukhā (Yemen) -- Buildings, structures, etc
• Mukhā (Yemen) -- Commerce | History -- 17th century
• Mukhā (Yemen) -- Commerce | History -- 18th century
• Yemen (Republic) -- Mukhā

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"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 urban shape and architecture took the forms they did. Mocha was a hub in a great trade network encompassing overseas cities, agricultural hinterlands, and inland market centers. All these connected places, together with the functional demands of commerce in the city, the social stratification of its residents, and the imam's desire for wealth, contributed to Mocha's architectural and urban form. Eventually, in the mid-1800s, the Ottomans regained control over Yemen and abandoned Mocha as their coastal base. Its trade and its population diminished and its magnificent buildings began to crumble, until few traces are left of them today. This book helps bring Mocha to life once again."

Member of

• Publications on the Near East, University of Washington
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

953.32

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

NA2543.M47

LC item number

U4 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Publications on the Near East

Summary URI

http://books.google.com/books?id=NqWNPAAACAAJ