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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.

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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 Maps: 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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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
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