Map: European colonialism conquered every country in the world but these five http://t.co/jHu6YCbyZi pic.twitter.com/n667yztUVA
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European colonialism conquered every country in the world but these five
26 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
Geographic anomalies around the world
24 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in law and economics Tags: border disputes, constitutional law, geographic anomalies, geography, maps, sovereignty, unrecognised states
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Full map is at http://www.geocurrents.info/geopolitics/key-to-map-of-geopolitical-anomalies
The political divisions of North America since 1750
20 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA Tags: maps
The Abbey Road album cover in Google street view
19 Feb 2015 1 Comment
in Music Tags: maps, The Beatles
Abbey Road by the Beatles. So famous is the cover for the Fab Four’s last studio album in 1969 that Westminster council in London have to repaint the wall next to the crossing every three months to cover over fans’ graffiti, and the street signs are mounted high above the ground because otherwise they just keep getting stolen
via Classic album covers in Google Street View – in pictures | Cities | The Guardian
Map Of The Day
16 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA Tags: maps
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJxrTzfG2bo&start=13]
History professor Claudio Saunt created the above time-lapse, as well as a corresponding interactive map, to emphasize “the fact that the United States is built on someone else’s land”:
By the time the Civil War came to an end in 1865, it had consumed the lives of 800,000 Americans, or 2.5 per cent of the population, according to recent estimates. If slavery was a moral failing, said Lincoln in his second inaugural address, then the war was ‘the woe due to those by whom the offense came’. The rupture between North and South forced white Americans to confront the nation’s deep investment in slavery and to emancipate and incorporate four million individuals. They did not do so willingly, and the reconstruction of the nation is in many ways still unfolding. By contrast, there has been no similar reckoning with the conquest of the continent, no serious reflection on its centrality…
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Oldest map of Britain
15 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: maps
Exclusive economic zones around the world – New Zealand’s exclusive economic zone is rather large
08 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in fisheries economics, international economic law, international economics, International law, resource economics Tags: exclusive economic zones, Law of the Sea, maps, national sovereignty
Pre-World War I and post-World War I maps of Europe
02 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: maps, World War I
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