{"product_id":"puerto-rico-world-war-2-persuasive-map-richard-edes-harrison-for-fortune-1941-p-8-006768","title":"Puerto Rico—World War 2 persuasive map—Richard Edes Harrison for Fortune 1941","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Puerto Rico'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRichard Edes Harrison’s Puerto Rico, published in Fortune in February 1941, ten months before Pearl Harbor, is a persuasive strategic map rather than a neutral island view. Drawn from an oblique, almost aerial perspective, it enlarges San Juan and orients the island toward the Atlantic approaches, Virgin Islands, Mona Passage and Caribbean sea lanes. Harrison’s purpose is to make Puerto Rico legible as a strategic American outpost at the threshold of war: a compact island whose harbours, airfields, roads, mountains and neighbouring passages gave it outsized importance in hemispheric defence. The map’s dramatic shading and inset of San Juan turn geography into argument, showing why this U.S. possession mattered for naval protection, air power, and control of the Caribbean routes into the Panama Canal and Atlantic.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934518899035,"sku":"P-8-006768","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006768a.jpg?v=1778179199","url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/fr\/products\/puerto-rico-world-war-2-persuasive-map-richard-edes-harrison-for-fortune-1941-p-8-006768","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}