Philip Gooding

On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World (eBook, PDF)

A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009302487
• Artikelnr.: 66177872

Autorenporträt

Philip Gooding is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Lakes, oceans, and littorals in history
Part I. Demarcations of Space: 1. The growth of 'emporia'
2. Changing land use in a changing climate
3. Traversing the lake
Part II. Interactions: 4. Competition and conflict on the western frontier
5. Global commodities in East African societies
6. Structures of bondage
7. An Islamic sea
Epilogue: The littoral and the lake.