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  title info:
    title: Islands in a cosmopolitan sea
    sub title: a history of the Comoros
  name:
    name part: Walker, Iain (Iain Bruce)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 293 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white)
  abstract: 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 & commodities with Arab & Indian merchants. By the 16th century, the archipelago served as an important supply point on the route from Europe to Asia. The 20th century brought the establishment of French colonial rule & a plantation economy. Today, the island nation suffers chronic mismanagement & relies on remittances from a diaspora community in France. Iain Walker traces the history & 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.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Iain Walker.
  note: Previously issued in print: 2019.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: i-cq---
    geographic code: i------
  subject:
    geographic: Comoros
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Islands of the Indian Ocean
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Indien, Îles de l'océan
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    geographic: Comoros
  subject:
    geographic: Indian Ocean
    geographic: Islands of the Indian Ocean
  classification: DT469.C7 W354 2020
  classification: 969.4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Islands in a cosmopolitan sea
    name:
      name part: Walker, Iain (Iain Bruce).
    origin info:
      publisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2019
    identifier: (OCoLC)1055264647
  identifier: 9780190099633
  identifier: 0190099631
  identifier: 9781787381469
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 200122
    record change date: 20260319181923.1
    record identifier: in00005718238
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng