Transcript Dividing up a continent

Dividing up a continent
University of Essex
Open House
5 May 2010
DIVIDING UP A CONTINENT:
THE POLITICS OF MAPPING
AMERICA
Peter Hulme
Department of Literature, Film,
and Theatre Studies
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Martin Waldseemüller’s world map (1507)
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“Since both Asia and Africa
received their names from
women, I do not see why anyone
should rightly prevent this new
part from being called
Amerigen—the land of Amerigo,
as it were—or America, after its
discoverer, Americus, a man of
perceptive character”
Matthias Ringmann,
Cosmographiae introductio
(1507)
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Martin Waldseemüller’s world map (1507)
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North America
Equator
South America
A continent of two unequal halves
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United Nations map of the macroregions of the world
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United Nations map of the macroregions of the world
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United Nations map of the subregions of the world
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Martin Waldseemüller’s world map (1507)
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Map of the English
Colonies in America
prior to 1763
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Map of the English
Colonies in America
prior to 1763
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From Arthur Bird,
Looking Forward: A
Dream of the United
States of the
Americas [1899]
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