{"title":"Propaganda and Persuasive Maps","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaps do more than describe the world: they can also persuade, provoke, advertise and mobilise. This collection brings together propaganda and persuasive maps designed to shape public opinion, political belief, wartime morale or commercial ambition. It ranges from nineteenth-century satirical and social-reform cartography to First World War visions of Pan-German expansion, Ronald Lampitt’s anti-Nazi maps, Allied psychological-warfare newssheets and Cold War representations of Communist power. Richard Edes Harrison’s dramatic Fortune maps recast the globe around air power, invasion routes, strategic resources and oil, while MacDonald Gill’s Empire Marketing Board maps and corporate cartography for Shell and ITT promote imperial trade and multinational reach. Temperance, poverty and social-campaign maps reveal persuasion at home. Together, these works show how projection, colour, symbolism, selective evidence and striking graphic design transformed the authority of the map into a powerful instrument of propaganda, advocacy, satire and promotion.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"descriptive-map-of-london-poverty-booth-nw-west-end-marylebone-mayfair-1889-p-6-019850","title":"Descriptive map of London Poverty. BOOTH. 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He popularised the idea of the 'poverty line', and used his work to argue for the introduction of Old Age Pensions which he described as \"limited socialism\". He was not a socialist, but had sympathy with the working classes and argued that such reforms would help prevent socialist revolution from occurring in Britain. Map colour key: BLACK: Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminalt class; DARK BLUE: Very poor, casual. Chronic want; LIGHT BLUE: Poor. 18s to 21s a week for a moderate family; PURPLE: Mixed. Some comfirtable, others poor; PINK: Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings; RED: Well-to-do. Middle class; YELLOW: Upper-middle and Upper classes. 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The concept of Metro-land, developed by the railway company in the early 20th century, championed a blend of rural tranquillity and easy urban access. Marketing highlighted green spaces, spacious homes, and a cleaner environment in towns like Harrow, Wembley, Rickmansworth, and Amersham, all within commuting distance of central London, underscored by the thirteen golf courses marked on the map. Popularized by Metro-land guidebooks and later by John Betjeman’s nostalgic 1973 documentary, the concept of Metro-land remains a key chapter in London's development, part of its psyche and deeply ingrained in its cultural memory. An example of this now scarce map is displayed at the London Transport Museum. It has map of the route continuation and connections in inner London on the reverse side.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722128593243,"sku":"P-6-108386","price":1140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-108386a_4ac77832-a664-41e1-abda-eae3f998020d.jpg?v=1753354540"},{"product_id":"central-london-public-houses-soho-west-end-temperance-drink-map-rowntree-1899-p-6-109457","title":"Central London Public Houses. Soho West End temperance\/drink map. 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Rowntree—a Quaker philanthropist, social reformer, and associate of Charles Booth—advocated for the provision of leisure facilities such as parks or reading rooms as alternatives to the public house, and this map formed part of a broader evidence-based campaign to link temperance with social and legislative reform.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722162671963,"sku":"P-6-109457","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-109457a.jpg?v=1748719991"},{"product_id":"prohibition-drink-map-licence-no-licence-towns-near-boston-massachusetts-1899-p-6-109466","title":"Prohibition\/drink map. 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The map was published by social reformer Joseph Rowntree to argue that prohibition can only be successfully enforced in suburban communities with easy access to the \"safety valve\" of \"populous urban centres\" which are \"unwilling to accept Prohibition\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722162835803,"sku":"P-6-109466","price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-109466a.jpg?v=1748719992"},{"product_id":"plan-of-the-city-of-york-poverty-map-by-seebohm-rowntree-1901-old-antique-p-6-109455","title":"Plan of the City of York. Poverty map by Seebohm Rowntree 1901 old antique","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Plan of the City of York'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis important map was published alongside B. Seebohm Rowntree’s landmark 1901 study Poverty: A Study of Town Life. Inspired by Charles Booth’s London poverty maps, Rowntree employed a colour-coded scheme: grey for the poorest areas, yellow for working-class districts, pink for business streets, and green for neighbourhoods of the “servant-keeping classes.” Rowntree—a Quaker, social reformer, and pioneer of empirical sociology—used data to demonstrate that poverty in York was driven more by structural factors, such as low wages and insecure employment, than by individual moral failings. This challenged prevailing Victorian assumptions that the poor were largely responsible for their own condition. His study influenced early 20th-century welfare reforms and remains a milestone in the development of modern social science. This map stands as a striking example of how cartography was used to expose and confront social inequality in Edwardian Britain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722163163483,"sku":"P-6-109455","price":170.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-109455a.jpg?v=1748719990"},{"product_id":"neighbours-pre-ww2-europe-allegorical-political-pictorial-map-alnwick-1937-p-7-019386","title":"\"Neighbours\" Pre WW2 Europe allegorical political pictorial map. ALNWICK 1937","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Neighbours'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA fascinating political allegorical map published a couple of years before the Second World War. While whimsical in intent, it portends the approaching calamity. With hindsight, the title \"Neighbours\" is loaded with irony. French \u0026amp; German soldiers are facing off over the Rhine, while the Hitler Youth give a Nazi salute to their leader (possibly Hitler) nearby; in Italy, a Roman soldier and another figure (possibly Mussolini) similarly exchange a Roman - or Fascist - salute. Ominously, two Polish soldiers are positioned back-to-back facing both Germany and Russia. Pairs of civilians are shown in similarly defensive positions in Czechoslovakia, Austria (the Anschluss with Nazi Germany did not occur until 1938), Finland and Romania, reflecting the military threat faced on two fronts. The figures in each of the three Baltic States are looking over their shoulders at the Soviet Union.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722819703131,"sku":"P-7-019386","price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-019386a.jpg?v=1748734838"},{"product_id":"one-world-one-war-a-map-showing-the-line-up-by-richard-edes-harrison-1942-p-7-019769","title":"One World One War. A map showing the line-up… by Richard Edes Harrison 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'A Fortune Map. \"One World One War. 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By using this unconventional perspective, Harrison illustrated the concept of a single, interconnected global theater of war, visually reinforcing the notion that the conflict was truly worldwide, affecting all continents and nations. The map served to provide an understanding of the war's global scale and the necessity for international coordination. Each country is coloured on a spectrum to indicate to which side in the conflict their loyalties lay, and their degree of commitment to that cause. Reflecting the shifting and sometimes unclear nature of these alignments, both Thailand and Finland are cast as members of the Axis, although in Thailand's alliance with Japan was someone coercive in nature, and Finland had been invaded by Russia early in the war.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722831958363,"sku":"P-7-019769","price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-019769a_24c4cd5e-ee69-4b2b-a32c-fa22c2a1f9d9.jpg?v=1778179101"},{"product_id":"battle-for-asia-the-axis-threat-to-british-india-ww2-fortune-magazine-1942-map-p-7-019787","title":"Battle for Asia. The Axis Threat to British India. 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Gulf was one the original \"Seven Sisters\" Supermajor oil companies which dominated the global oil industry until the 1970s, and was one of the 10 largest U.S. manufacturing businesses between the 1940s and 1970s. The map traces Gulf’s expansion from its origins at the Lucas Gusher at Spindletop, Texas, to its network of oil fields, refineries, terminals, and pipelines from Texas and Oklahoma up through the southern United States to Pittsburgh and New York. An inset of coastal Venezuela highlights Gulf’s South American concessions, and those of its competitors. 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The map and its accompanying text challenge the prevailing military orthodoxy of the Mediterranean as the Axis's “soft” or easily invaded underbelly, highlighting instead the significant geographic, logistical, and military obstacles. The text emphasizes the difficulty of advancing through mountainous terrain like the Pyrenees, Alps, and Balkans, which have historically hindered invasions. It also stresses the strategic importance of Allied control over the Mediterranean in disrupting Axis supply lines and compelling Germany to defend its southern borders. With a dramatic perspective as if viewed from space, the map centers on Southern Europe from the Allied vantage point in North Africa. The topographical emphasis underscores natural barriers and strategically important locations, while the projection and scale highlight the vast, challenging expanse of the Mediterranean theatre. This innovative approach effectively conveys the region's geographic complexities and military challenges. The Allied invasion of Italy, which began several months later in July 1943, led quickly to the collapse of the Fascist regime and Italy changing sides; Hitler was required to move a considerable number of his forces from the Eastern Front to defend his \"soft underbelly\". 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On Harrison's gnomonic projection, all great-circle routes appear as straight lines, displaying the most direct paths. Centered on the North Pole, Harrison’s projection reveals that the shortest routes between North America and Eurasia—the flight paths of aircraft in the age of aviation—span the Arctic, underscoring the true proximity of these continents. This visualization highlighted the U.S.'s potential vulnerability to northern air attacks, a critical message in 1943 as air power began to reshape global warfare. Harrison’s map reshaped American perceptions of global proximity, demonstrating that modern warfare could bypass the perceived security of oceans, making the Arctic central to both defense and strategic planning. 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The central location of India and its proximity to both the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal underscore its importance as a bulwark against Communist expansion from the north. The map is designed to visually communicate the importance of South Asia as a defensive stronghold against Soviet and Chinese influence in Asia. The view from space and the topography depicted in a 3D relief style give prominence to the mountains that separate South Asia from Central Asia and China, symbolizing both physical and ideological divides. 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Denmark appears as a frog, small and pliant after its 1864 defeat; Britain, aloof on its island, a fishing rod extending to the eastern Mediterranean symbolising its maritime reach while its hook catching a crocodile near Crete suggest designs on Egypt and the Levant; Finland is a muzzled bear, gagged under Russian control; Turkey is a grotesque imp retreating eastward, embodying the “Sick Man of Europe” pushed back into Asia; Germany and Prussia sharpen their sword, a warning of renewed militarism; the Balkans sprout jack-in-the-boxes representing the volatile new nations—Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania—springing unpredictably from Ottoman collapse; and Sardinia, shown as a foetus in a jar, evokes Italy’s incomplete and malformed unification. Together these emblems form a complex Franco-centric allegory of post-Franco-Prussian-War Europe—ironic, anxious, and darkly humorous in its reading of continental instability and imperial ambition. The text around the outside of the map describes national stereotypes and characteristics in a comic manner., for example \"Spain is in a very poor situation and manages its expenses very badly. Products — Guitars and Spanish furniture, products little valued abroad. Manners and customs — The inhabitants have the habit of smoking a great many cigarettes.\", while the British are characterised as materialist pickpockets.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773262659931,"sku":"P-8-006303","price":1220.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006303a_381806ef-46d6-488f-bda9-1144a9cbd257.jpg?v=1763719993"},{"product_id":"serio-comic-satirical-map-of-cold-war-europe-by-david-low-picture-post-1952-p-8-006328","title":"Serio-comic Satirical Map of Cold War Europe by David Low. 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The composition swarms with goose-stepping regiments, armament factories, propaganda rallies, and secret-police activity, all under a brooding Nazi eagle representing Hitler’s “addled egg.” One of Lampitt’s most striking and incisive propaganda maps, notable for its manic detail and sharp insight into the mechanisms and paranoia of the Third Reich.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773265084763,"sku":"P-8-006330","price":560.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006330a.jpg?v=1770310616"},{"product_id":"19th-precinct-1st-ward-chicago-levee-district-brothels-saloons-stead-1894-map-p-6-110809","title":"19th Precinct 1st Ward Chicago Levee District Brothels \u0026 Saloons. 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In the background, Fascists hang from gallows, reflecting the wave of summary executions by partisans. An Italian soldier struggles to remove the crown from the head of the King, alluding to the cotemporary debate over abolishing the monarchy and the discrediting of Victor Emmanuel III. The “heel” and “toe” of Italy are tied to the mainland with bundles of Allied money, alluding to AMGOT’s financial stabilisation of liberated southern Italy. On the horizon, German forces are shown being swept out of Albania. 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Produced at a moment of acute war-weariness in France, the map draws on official statements by the French government and General Pétain to reinforce the argument that France is fighting a defensive war “in the name of liberty and to ensure its survival”. Combining cartography, rhetoric and graphic design, the map exemplifies Neumont’s use of maps as persuasive instruments rather than neutral documents. Ironically and sadly, Pétain, who commanded the French Army in World War I, later became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II, for which he was convicted of treason. 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British salesmen, uniformly dressed in bowler hats, are shown hawking an unflattering catalogue of “exports”: third-division football managers, politicians selling “hot air”, pest-control services, double glazing to soundproof against British football hooligans (one of the country’s more notorious exports at the time), and acquisitive corporate raiders embodied by Guinness. The map is densely packed with topical shorthand and national stereotypes. Spain is reduced to bullfights, France is portrayed through wine and labour, there is a reference to \"Irish brickies\", while Sicily is marked as a market for “concrete boots”, a pointed allusion to Mafia violence. 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Confronted by the organisation’s limited success in reaching the poorest urban slums, and influenced by the work of “social” Salvationists active in London, Booth redirected the movement from a purely evangelistic mission towards a practical programme addressing unemployment and poverty. The City Colony formed the first stage of his three-part scheme—City, Farm, and Overseas Colonies—intended to guide the urban poor from destitution into workshops, rural training, or emigration. The composition presents a striking allegory of humanity drowning in a sea of social evils, including drunkenness, misery, despair, “idiocy,” and wife desertion. 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Issued before the liberation of the camps, the work functions as contemporaneous testimony rather than retrospective history. Drawing on Jewish and Polish underground reports, eyewitness accounts, and resistance publications, the text reconstructs the armed uprising of April–May 1943 and the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. It traces how Nazi policy—starvation, terror, and deportation—advanced toward systematic annihilation, and how the moment of realisation among the Jewish population that deportation from the Ghetto meant death transformed despair into armed resistance. On 19 April 1943, poorly equipped Jewish fighters confronted overwhelming German force, including tanks, artillery, and the deliberate burning of the ghetto. Despite the inevitability of defeat, resistance endured for weeks, disrupting German operations and inflicting losses. The uprising’s significance lay not in its military outcome but in moral defiance. 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The unfamiliar perspective displaces Western Europe’s usual centrality: Britain, France and Germany lie beyond a landmass framed by Scandinavia, the Baltic, the Black Sea and North Africa. It makes Germany’s position legible as a fortress pressed from east and west, but also exposes the geographic openness of Eastern Europe. With the Red Army advancing in June 1944, the same plains that had channelled earlier invasions of Russia now carried Soviet power westward. 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The orthographic view centers Eurasia and Africa as the decisive landmass, while the text treats German geopolitics and Haushofer’s world-conquest dreams as inflated, pseudo-geographical fantasy. Harrison argues that Germany mistook bulk for power: Russia—the Heartland—was threatening but underdeveloped, vulnerable to air and Arctic approaches, and too vast to seize. Allied strategy, by contrast, succeeded by closing on the enemy from vital geographical points rather than breaking outward from a supposed center. 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Its relief and key to railways, highways, pipelines and oilfields explain why Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and India mattered: they offered oil, communications and the imagined junction of German and Japanese power. Harrison credits Britain’s “experienced geographical sense” in committing scarce military resources to the region early in the war. By June 1944, Stalingrad, El Alamein, the occupation of Iran and Allied landings in North Africa had transformed this threatened corridor into a base for Allied offensives.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518210907,"sku":"P-8-006754","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006754a.jpg?v=1778179198"},{"product_id":"u-s-s-r-from-the-south-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006755","title":"U.S.S.R. from the South—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'U.S.S.R. from the South'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eU.S.S.R. from the South views the Soviet Union from its vulnerable southern approaches. Harrison’s perspective draws attention to the Caucasus, Black Sea, Caspian, Iran and Central Asia, where oil, railways, population and imperial ambition converged. The population inset and transport legend reinforce the point: Russia’s strength and vulnerability alike lay in its vast distances, resources and communications. Reissued in June 1944, after Germany’s drive toward the Caucasus oilfields had failed at Stalingrad and Rommel’s advance toward Egypt and the Middle East had been stopped at El Alamein, the map presents southern Russia not as a remote margin, but as a crucial wartime theatre.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518243675,"sku":"P-8-006755","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006755a_f904ce38-f2bc-4a8a-b1ae-fd702caa227b.jpg?v=1778784365"},{"product_id":"china-from-the-east-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006756","title":"China from the East—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'China from the East'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarrison’s map, originally issued in 1941, highlights China’s central wartime problem: not territory, but access. Seen from the east, it emphasizes China’s restricted access to the sea, with many outlets blocked, threatened, or occupied by Japan, leaving Free China dependent on tenuous inland and frontier communications. Harrison picks out in blue the fragile network of roads, rivers, railways and smuggling ports linking the coast and outer supply routes to the Chinese interior. The inset showing the wartime migration of Chinese universities underscores China’s resilience under invasion. Reissued in June 1944, the map presents China as an important Allied partner, but one constrained by distance, terrain, and blockade.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518309211,"sku":"P-8-006756","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006756a_12435b67-5f01-42c9-941e-04a84260819a.jpg?v=1778784366"},{"product_id":"pacific-arena-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1944-p-8-006757","title":"Pacific Arena—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison—Fortune 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Pacific Arena'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis reduced atlas version of Harrison’s Pacific Arena, first published in September 1942, uses an orthographic globe to make the vast Pacific comprehensible as a single strategic theatre. Harrison’s key point is that the most direct U.S.–Japan route is not across the central Pacific, but north through Dutch Harbor and the Aleutians. Pearl Harbor becomes a flank position, Truk its Japanese counterpart, while Japan’s island empire appears as an elaborate defensive grid running through the Ryukyus, Philippines, East Indies, Marianas, Carolines and Marshalls. Reissued in June 1944, as American forces advanced toward Japan, the map shows both the strength of Japan’s perimeter and its weakness: China, Siberia and the northern route offered no natural defensive line.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518341979,"sku":"P-8-006757","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006757a.jpg?v=1778179197"},{"product_id":"japan-from-alaska-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-fortune-1944-p-8-006758","title":"Japan from Alaska—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison—Fortune 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Japan from Alaska'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarrison's \"Japan from Alaska\" argues that the northern Pacific was not a remote flank but a direct approach to Japan. By curving Alaska, the Aleutians, Kamchatka, the Kuriles and Hokkaido into one visual corridor, Harrison shows how the route from North America cuts into the heart of the Japanese Empire. The recent fight for Attu and Kiska made this geography immediate. Alaska becomes an offensive platform, not an outpost; Japan appears exposed from the air-age north, where conventional Pacific maps had suggested only distance and emptiness.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518374747,"sku":"P-8-006758","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006758a.jpg?v=1778179197"},{"product_id":"japan-from-the-solomons-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006759","title":"Japan from the Solomons—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Japan from the Solomons'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarrison's \"Japan from the Solomons\" looks toward Japan from the hard-won Southwest Pacific. 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