Merchant Houses of Mocha - Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port

Informationen zum Autor Nancy Um is associate professor of art history at Binghamton University in New York. Klappentext Nancy Um is associate professor of art history at Binghamton University in New York. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration, Dates, and Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Mocha Trade Network 2. The Yemeni Coffee Network 3. A Littoral Society in Yemen 4. Merchants and Nakhudhas 5. The Urban Form and Orientation of Mocha 6. Trading Spaces 7. On the Politics of Inside and Out Conclusion: The End of the Mocha Era Appendix A. The Imams of Qasimi Yemen and the Governors of Mocha Appendix B. Archival and Museum Sources Consulted Notes Glossary References Cited Illustration Credits Index

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Um
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2009
• EAN: 9780295989112
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98911-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Publications on the Near East; Donald R. Ellegood International Publications; Publications on the Near East
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture