Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t7fkt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-06T23:32:32.227Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Introduction

Lakes, Oceans, and Littorals in History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2022

Philip Gooding
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
Get access

Summary

This introductory chapter explores links between Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, and the wider Indian Ocean World in history and historiography. It does so firstly by stressing the peculiarities of Lake Tanganyika’s shape and environment in the East African context. It then draws on a wider historiography of lakes and oceans in world history, and it argues that doing so necessitates taking on perspectives from the wider Indian Ocean World. But, far from being a place where patterns from the wider Indian Ocean World replicated themselves, Lake Tanganyika was a ‘frontier’ where phenomena traditionally associated with the macro-region (including e.g. Islam, boating technologies, and fashions) were negotiated and reimagined in particularly robust ways. This applies especially to the period c.1830–90, during which coastal and Great Lakes populations encountered each other in significant numbers for the first time, caused by the expansion of the global ivory trade.

Type
Chapter
Information
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World
A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890
, pp. 1 - 30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

  • Introduction
  • Philip Gooding, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World
  • Online publication: 21 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122023.001
Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

  • Introduction
  • Philip Gooding, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World
  • Online publication: 21 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122023.001
Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

  • Introduction
  • Philip Gooding, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World
  • Online publication: 21 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122023.001
Available formats
×