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| #3683176 in Books | 2009-09-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.94 x.72 x6.00l,.89 | File type: PDF | 272 pages||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Reconstructing the late 17th and early 18th centuries of a now-ruined city|By ROROTOKO|"The Merchant Houses of Mocha" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Um's book interview ran here as cover feature on November 20, 2009.||"Um demonstrates that Mocha's urban history is much richer than its link to a single commercial product. . . . Scholars like Um are breaking the unfortunate but long-lasting misassumption that pre-modern Arabian history is stagnant and devoid of source materia
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 trad...
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