On the frontiers of the Indian Ocean world : a history of Lake Tanganyika, 1830-1890 / Philip Gooding, McGill University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gooding, Philip, 1988- author.

Series:

Cambridge oceanic histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tanganyika, Lake--History--19th century.

Tanganyika, Lake.

Africa, Eastern--History--19th century.

Africa, Eastern.

Africa, Eastern--Commerce--History.

Indian Ocean Region--History--19th century.

Indian Ocean Region.

Indian Ocean Region--Commerce--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This is the first interdisciplinary history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship with the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Philip Gooding deploys diverse source materials, including oral, climatological, anthropological, and archaeological sources, to ground interpretations of the better-known, European-authored archive in local epistemologies and understandings of the past. Gooding shows that Lake Tanganyika's shape, location, and distinctive lacustrine environment contributed to phenomena traditionally associated with the history of the wider Indian Ocean World being negotiated, contested, and re-imagined in particularly robust ways. He adds novel contributions to African and Indian Ocean histories of urbanism, the environment, spirituality, kinship, commerce, consumption, material culture, bondage, slavery, Islam, and capitalism. African peoples and environments are positioned as central to the histories of global economies, religions, and cultures.

Contents:

Lakes, oceans, and littorals in history

Demarcations of Space

The growth of 'emporia'

Changing land use in a changing climate

Traversing the lake

Interactions

Competition and conflict on the western frontier

Global commodities in East African societies

Structures of bondage

An Islamic Sea

Epilogue: The littoral and the lake.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jul 2022).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781009122023 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.