The British Empire - "A Nation and A Company of Nations" The World on Merator's Projection Showing the British Empire 1924
- Title:
- The British Empire - "A Nation and A Company of Nations" The World on Merator's Projection Showing the British Empire 1924
- Alternate Title:
- The British Empire - "A Nation and A Company of Nations"
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Hall, J.J.
- Other Creators:
- Greater Yarmouth British-Israel Association, publisher
- Date:
- 1925
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 1214.01
- File Name:
- PJM_1214_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Religion
Unusual Graphics/Text
Ethnocentrism - Measurement:
- 13 x 17 on page 20 x 26 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This map supports the views of the British Israelite movement. The movement has been described as a melange of "Protestant apocalypticism, British nationalism, New Age belief, and racial pseudo-science." Cottrell-Boyce 2021. According to the British Israelites, the white, Protestant people of Britain - including the British royal family - are directly descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel, specifically the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. As such, these Protestant "Anglo Saxons," including Americans and others from the British Colonies, are divinely blessed and the inheritors of the biblical prophecies and promises bestowed on the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. From the end of the 19th century until World War II, the movement flourished in Britain and spread to the United States and Canada. See generally Kidd 2006, 43-44 & ch. 7. In the view of many historians and religious scholars, British Israelites "propagated a religious justification for white superiority," and "served to sanctify the British imperialist enterprise," as well as American Manifest Destiny and sometimes virulent anti-Semitism. Ibid 213-14, 220.
The map purports to trace the exiled lost nomadic tribes through Europe to Britain before the birth of Christ, and then to America in the 16th century. Biblical passages are used to support a number of "Points of Identity Between Prophetic Israel & British Race & No Other," as well as the title, which comes from Genesis 35:11: "And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.”
The map was produced by J.J. Hall (who initialed it at the bottom right), an illustrator who belonged to the movement. Verschuur 2015, 40. It was published by the Greater Yarmouth British-Israel Association.
The collection includes other British Israelite materials; Search > "Israelite."
For other examples of geographic and cartographic pseudo-science in the collection, Search > "pseudo*".
For other religious charts and timelines in the collection, Search > "Religious Charts."
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- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.