Carte de l’Europe selon les Nationalités &… Intérêts des Peuples. Peace map 1859
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'Carte de l’Europe selon les Nationalités et les Intérêts des Peuples'
A rare political map of Europe published in 1859 by “de vrais amis de la paix” (some true friends of peace) and sold by the Geneva bookseller A. de Chateauvieux, illustrating a proposed realignment of Europe “according to nationalities and the interests of peoples.” Reflecting the mid-19th-century French and Genevan reformist movements that sought to redraw Europe’s borders on linguistic and ethnic lines to prevent future wars, the map divides the continent into large federative blocs such as the British Empire and a Scandinavian Confederation. Produced by a pacifist or federalist circle active during the upheavals surrounding the wars of Italian unification, it is a striking example of early peace-movement cartography and an unusually explicit visual manifesto for a nationality-based, harmonious European order.
Size 58 x 76 cm | 22.5 x 29.5 inches
Date Published: 1859
Type: Antique hand coloured political reformist map
Author: de vrais amis de la paix
Publication: A. de Chateauvieux, Genève
Condition: Good |
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