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Walker, Iain (Iain Bruce)
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Comoros -- History.
Islands of the Indian Ocean -- History.
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Walker, Iain (Iain Bruce)
Comoros -- History.
Islands of the Indian Ocean -- History.
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Islands
in a
cosmopolitan
sea
: a
history
of the
Comoros
/ Iain Walker.
by
Walker, Iain (Iain Bruce)
Oxford University Press, 2019.
Call #:
969.4 W179w
Subjects
Comoros
--
History
.
Islands
of the Indian Ocean --
History
.
ISBN:
9780190071301 (hc.)
Alternate title:
History
of the
Comoros
Description:
xxi, 293 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-274) and index.
Summary:
"Many people today have never heard of the
Comoros
, but these
islands
were once part of a prosperous regional trading economy that stretched halfway around the world. A key node in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean, the
Comoros
prospered by exchanging slaves and commodities with Arab and Indian merchants. By the sixteenth century, the archipelago served as an important supply point on the route from Europe to Asia. The twentieth century brought the establishment of French colonial rule and a plantation economy. Since declaring its independence in 1975, the
Comoros
has been blighted by more than twenty coups, a radical revolutionary government and a mercenary regime. Today, the island nation suffers chronic mismanagement and relies on remittances from a diaspora community in France. Nonetheless, the
Comoros
is largely peaceful and culturally vibrant-- connected to the outside world in the internet age, but, at the same time, still slightly apart. Iain Walker traces the
history
and unique culture of these enigmatic
islands
, from their first settlement by Africans, Arabs and Austronesians, through their heyday within the greater Swahili world, to their decline as a forgotten outpost of the French colonial empire."--Goodreads.
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