Angling in troubled waters

Political boundaries and power struggles define this work. The 19th-century “serio-comic map” caricaturizes each European country as a fisherman, holding a sack with its imperial catch, or about to lose what it has caught. Serving as an allegory for European colonial interfere...

Map

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1899
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English
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06_01_011037
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Boston Public Library
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London
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G.W. Bacon & Co.
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