Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea
Autor Iain Walkeren Limba Engleză Hardback – sep 2019
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190071301
ISBN-10: 0190071303
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 137 x 218 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: HURST & CO
ISBN-10: 0190071303
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 137 x 218 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: HURST & CO
Notă biografică
Iain Walker has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Sydney and has held positions at the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, and the University of Oxford. He is currently Research Officer at Martin Luther University and Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, both in Halle, Germany.