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The Merchant Houses of M.has been added to your Cart. With her study of Mocha in the period between 1650 and 1750, Nancy Um has broken new ground through an innovative combination of architectural and archival materials, thus combining the approaches of historian and art historian in a unique wa.er important contribution to debates on port cities in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean with regard to their functioning and relation to sea and hinterland, as well as to debates on architectural history, will surely have a major impact on how we understand urban history on the Arabian Peninsula and beyond.

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Start by marking The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the Ottomans in 1635, Mocha's trade turned eastward toward the Indian Ocean and coastal 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.

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 . Series: Publications on the Near East. File: PDF, . 1 MB. Читать онлайн. 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. Mocha was a hub in.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.

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NANCY UM: The Merchant Houses of Mocha. Publications on the Near East. Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port. xiii, 270 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2009. With her study of Mocha in the period between 1650 and 1750, Nancy Um has bro-ken new ground through an innovative combination of architectural and archival materials, thus combining the approaches of historian and art historian in a unique way. This is a particular achievement as very little of the architectural heritage has survived, and the way in which Um uses textual sources to complement the remain-ing material is exemplary.

trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port. History, Commerce, Architecture and merchants, Buildings, structures. 1st ed. by Nancy Um. Published 2009 by University of Washington Press in Seattle and London. Mukhā (Yemen), Mukhā, Yemen (Republic). 17th century, 18th century.

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Merchant Houses of Mocha : Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the Ottomans in 1635, Mocha's trade turned eastward toward the Indian Ocean and coastal India.