Author: John Beauchamp Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The City Merchant
Author: John Beauchamp Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Merchant Houses of Mocha
Author: Nancy Um
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295800232
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295800232
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
The Race for Gold; Or, The City Merchant and His Country Brother. [With Plates.]
Author: Race
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Old Merchants of New York City
Author: Joseph Alfred Scoville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Merchants in the City of Art
Author: Anne Louise Schiller
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442634618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
San Lorenzo neighborhood and its globalized market -- A mercantile neighborhood across time -- Lives and livelihoods on Silver Street -- Into the heart of Florence -- Saving San Lorenzo -- Fiorentinità in a post-Florentine market
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442634618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
San Lorenzo neighborhood and its globalized market -- A mercantile neighborhood across time -- Lives and livelihoods on Silver Street -- Into the heart of Florence -- Saving San Lorenzo -- Fiorentinità in a post-Florentine market
Reminiscences of the City of New York and Its Vicinity
Author: Henry Barton Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Aleppo
Author: Philip Mansel
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781784538477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse. At the crossroads of global trade, Aleppo drew merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra to the largest souq in the Middle East and it was from here that some of the world's most enduring food, music and culture sprang.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781784538477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse. At the crossroads of global trade, Aleppo drew merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra to the largest souq in the Middle East and it was from here that some of the world's most enduring food, music and culture sprang.
Merchants in the City of Art
Author: Anne L. Schiller
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442634634
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors in San Lorenzo, a neighborhood in the historic center of Florence, Italy, to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442634634
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors in San Lorenzo, a neighborhood in the historic center of Florence, Italy, to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change.
The Merchant Class of Medieval London, 1300-1500
Author: Sylvia L. Thrupp
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472060726
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A social history of the merchant class of 14th- and 15th-century London
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472060726
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A social history of the merchant class of 14th- and 15th-century London
Merchants and Revolution
Author: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859843338
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
A major reinterpretation of the transformation of English commerce in the century after 1550.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859843338
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
A major reinterpretation of the transformation of English commerce in the century after 1550.