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Moral and Political Chart of the Inhabited World - Exhibiting the Prevailing Religion, form of Government, Degree of Civilization, and Population of Each Country.
- Title:
- Moral and Political Chart of the Inhabited World - Exhibiting the Prevailing Religion, form of Government, Degree of Civilization, and Population of Each Country.
- Alternate Title:
- Moral and Political Chart of the Inhabited World
- Collection:
- Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Woodbridge, William C.
- Other Creators:
- Pelton, O. and Williams, W.
- Date:
- 1845
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 1050.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1050_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1800 - 1869
- Subject:
- Religion
Other Moral & Social
Ethnocentrism
- Measurement:
- 21 x 28 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- One of a series of maps by Woodbridge communicating a great amount of information, perhaps most interestingly the "Degree of Civilization . . . of Each Country." The legend offers four subjective "States" of civilization: Savage, Barbarous, Half civilized, and Civilized. (Other editions of this map include a fifth state, Enlightened.) But "Neither [the] map, nor Woodbridge's text, defines its terms. Intuitively, the reader must know what constitutes a savage or barbarous state and what separates [them from] a civilized country . . . ." Delaney 2012, 12. How can it be that virtually all of Central and South America was either Savage or Civilized? And why was virtually all of Canada Savage - and so little of the Western United States, or even Africa?
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- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.
