The merchant houses of Mocha : trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2009] |
Series: | Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.
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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. |
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Physical Description: | xiii, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780295989105 0295989106 9780295989112 0295989114 |
Author Notes: | Nancy Um is associate professor of art history at Binghamton University in New York. |