The merchant houses of Mocha : trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port / Nancy Um.

Main entry:

Um, Nancy.

Title & Author:

The merchant houses of Mocha : trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port / Nancy Um.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

Publications on the Near East

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Mocha trade network -- The Yemeni coffee network -- A littoral society in Yemen -- Merchants and Nākhūdhas -- the urban form and orientation of Mocha -- Trading spaces -- On the politics of inside and out -- Conclusion : the end of the Mocha Era -- Appendix A. The Imams of Qāsimī Yemen and the governors of Mocha -- Appendix B. Archival and museum sources consulted.

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

ISBN:

9780295989105 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0295989106 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780295989112 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0295989114 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and merchants Yemen (Republic) Mukhā History 17th century.
Architecture and merchants Yemen (Republic) Mukhā History 18th century.
Architecture and merchants.
Buildings.
Commerce.
Architektur
Handel
Handelsgesellschaft
Mukhā (Yemen) Commerce History 17th century.
Mukhā (Yemen) Commerce History 18th century.
Mukhā (Yemen) Buildings, structures, etc.
Yemen (Republic) Mukhā.
Mokka

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266266
Call No.: BIB 197961
Status: Available

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