The U.S. from the Outside—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944
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'The U.S. from the Outside'
"The U.S. from the Outside", originally issued in 1940 as "Three Approaches to the United States", reverses the American gaze. Harrison shows three hypothetical vulnerabilities: a German polar approach through Canada, a Japanese northern Pacific approach, and an East Coast threat from South America through the West Indies. Instead of viewing the United States outward, the map views the US from the persepctive of its actual and potential enemies. Reissued in June 1944, after Pearl Harbor had confirmed the northern Pacific danger, it reads as prophetic anti-isolationist cartography: America’s borders were far more exposed than Mercator maps suggested.
Size 34 x 26 cm | 13.5 x 10.0 inches
Date Published: 1944
Type: Vintage colour persuasive map
Author: Harrison, Richard Edes
Publication: Look at the World—A Fortune Atlas for World Strategy
Condition: Good |
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