On the frontiers of the Indian Ocean world : a history of Lake Tanganyika, 1830-1890

Author/Creator:

Gooding, Philip, 1988- author

Publication/Creation:

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

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

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

Series Titles:

Cambridge oceanic histories
Cambridge oceanic histories.

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Electronic books

Subjects:

Tanganyika, Lake--History--19th century
Africa, Eastern--History--19th century
Africa, Eastern--Commerce--History
Indian Ocean Region--History--19th century
Indian Ocean Region--Commerce--History

Description/Summary

Table of 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.

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.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

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

General Note:

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

Local Note:

Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937586200202486

ISBN:

9781009122023