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Western colonialism - Partition, Africa, Imperialism: By the turn of the 20th century, the map of Africa looked like a huge jigsaw puzzle, with most of the boundary lines having been drawn in a sort of game of give-and-take played in the foreign offices of the leading European powers. The division of Africa, the last continent to be so carved up, was essentially a product of the new ...
Jan 22, 2024 · 16th-Early 20th Century Maps of Africa This collection features digital copies of 113 antique maps of Africa and accompanying text dating from the mid-16th Century to the early 20th Century. All scanned maps are authentic and originally collected by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University.
- Barbara Prior
- 2018
1644. One of the most decorative and popular of all early maps of Africa, from the “golden age” of Dutch mapmaking. First issued in 1630, the map was reprinted many times between 1631 and 1667, appearing in Latin, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish editions of Blaeu’s atlases. The maps and atlases of the Blaeu family business, carried on ...
MapDescription1554The earliest obtainable map of the whole ...1584The standard map of Africa for the last ...1644One of the most decorative and popular of ...1710A large decorative map by a German-born ...Africa.'Maps of Africa to 1900' (510 maps, in high res. ContentDM images; as described in Thomas J. Bassett, Maps of Africa to 1900: Checklist of maps in atlases and geographical journals in the collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, c. 2000) [See also here] {February, 2010; update May 2019 when 2,527 images - many late ...
Apr 6, 2020 · Media in category "Old maps of Africa". The following 156 files are in this category, out of 156 total. 567 of 'Zum Rudolph-See und Stephanie-See. Die Forschungsreise des Grafen S. Teleki in Ost-Acquatorial-Afrika, 1887-1888' (11210508726).jpg 2,400 × 1,547; 533 KB.
Maps of Africa. This collection includes images of maps of continental Africa, political, shaded relief, & individual country maps; plus, a continental map on "Islam in Africa". Historical maps of Africa. This collection includes images of 19th century maps of South Africa, Madagascar, & parts of West and Central Africa.
Other European countries were soon following suit, and the last two decades of the 19 th century saw what modern historians call the “Scramble for Africa”. The inevitable tensions which resulted from overlapping ambitions led to European diplomats carving Africa up into “spheres of influence”, within which each power could do almost ...
