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Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea

By Iain Walker

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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...Show more

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9781787381469

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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Published year

2019

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1

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Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea

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Hardcover

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