The World Showing Germany's Peaceful Penetration
- Title:
- The World Showing Germany's Peaceful Penetration
- Alternate Title:
- The World Showing Germany's Peaceful Penetration
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Hammerton, John Alexander
- Date:
- 1920
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 2284.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_2284_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Between the Wars
Imperialism
Politics & Government - Measurement:
- 32 x 43 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This map reflects European concern over Germany's "peaceful" economic expansion both before and after World War I.
The Explanation at the upper left shows the color coding of not only the "German Empire" before the War, but "What Germany wanted." (For English maps published during the War illustrating "What Germany Wants," see ID #1198 and #1199.) The Explanation at the upper right is a key to codes showing "Where Germany beat Britain in Selling" 32 different products, from pottery, candles and toys to motor cars, machine tools and farm implements. Other areas of German "penetration" shown on the map include the branches of Berlin and Hamburg banks, German Missions, cables and steamship routes, and "German Trade on the African Coast."
By the beginning of the 20th century, Germany had established itself as the dominant economic power in Europe. It combined technical, industrial and manufacturing strength (particularly in the vital areas of coal and steel) with great banking, trade and other commercial activity. In a persistent and disciplined manner, Germany used these strengths to effect what its strategic thinkers had described as "the peaceful penetration of the non-German world with elements of our spiritual and and material culture." Schivelbusch 2003, 217. By the onset of World War I, this effort was well underway. "Another twenty years of this universal 'peaceful penetration' and all the adverse forces would have been neutralized, strangled by the presence in every national organization of the agents of German expansion. . . . and the syndicate of five or six great Berlin banks would have assumed the economic direction of the world." Hauser 1918, 6.
The inclusion of this map in an atlas published the year after Versailles reflects the continuing European fear that the defeat of Germany in the War would not end the threat: "The Germany of tomorrow . . . will remain a menace, because vanquished Germany will renounce neither her ambitions nor her methods." Ibid. 184.
The verso, ID #2284.02, contains extensive text providing detail on "Germany's Peaceful Penetration" of Europe, Africa, Asia and South America.
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Hammerton, John Alexander, ed. 1920. Harmsworth's atlas of the world and pictorial gazatteer with an atlas of the Great War.
- 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.