Drawing Colonial Lines: Between Armchair Cartography and On-Site Observation

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29 mars 2022

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Mapping Africa and Asia

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Philipp Meyer, « Drawing Colonial Lines: Between Armchair Cartography and On-Site Observation », Mapping Africa and Asia, ID : 10.58079/qlph

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On May 16, 1893, the cartographer Paul Langhans (1867–1952) wrote to German explorer Joachim Graf von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (1857–1924), a former farmer in the Orange Free State and colonial politician: “Highly esteemed Count! [...] The crossing of Neu-Mecklenburg in 1:200,000 is now in autography, [...]. I request a short text for the map, according to which also the lettering of the map would have to be completed, otherwise it would look far too empty” (Langhans 1893). The then still rel...

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