The merchant houses of Mocha : trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port /
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 Otto...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
c2009.
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| Edició: | 1st ed. |
| Col·lecció: | Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.
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