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Map of Europe for 1870
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Thilde Wolf
Lund, Sweden
Simon
London, United Kingdom
Todd Pearson
San Francisco, CA, United States
Tom Hart
Providence, RI, United States
George Webster
London, United Kingdom
Schmudde
Turin, Italy
David Houston
London, United Kingdom
Sohraub
Toronto, Canada
Rich M
Mt Airy, MD, United States
Mark W
Baltimore, MD, United States
This satirical map from 1870 shows a Europe in crisis, bristling with tensions which would, come July that year, erupt into the Franco-Prussian war. The conflict’s political fall-out – French humiliation at the loss of Alsace-Lorraine and British fears about a now unified and much more powerful Germany – would play a major role in the outbreak of world war one more than 40 years later. For all its serious subject matter the map manages to lend a little humour to the affair, with each nation anthropomorphised as a comical caricature. Prussia is depicted as the enormous walrus-like figure of the “Iron Chancellor” himself, Otto von Bismarck. France, kitted out as a Zouave soldier from French north Africa, is seen heroically repelling the Prussian sprawl (it is worth pointing out that the map was first published in France). (Source: RwPixel / Library of Congress)
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