The World—A Tea Merchant’s Chart—Production Areas—Appleton cartogram 1934 map
£200
SKU: P-8-007035
'The World: A Tea Merchant’s Chart, A.D. 1934 // Tea Production Areas'
An extraordinary interwar cartogram that makes consumption, rather than geography, determine the size of nations. Drawn by LeRoy H. Appleton for Fortune’s June 1934 survey of tea, China and an extravagantly enlarged British Isles dominate the globe, while red lines trace the commodity’s trading routes. The accompanying inset marks the Asian districts responsible for 99 per cent of world production. Although China drank twice as much tea overall, Fortune’s deliberately British-centred arrangement turns the map into a witty diagram of commerce and empire: India and Ceylon supply a drink imagined as quintessentially British. A superb example of the magazine’s inventive pictorial statistics and of cartography used to make global business immediately legible.
Size 36 x 57 cm | 14.0 x 22.5 inches
Date Published: June 1934
Type: Colour-printed double-page cartogram and pictorial commodity map
Author: Appleton, LeRoy H.
Publication: Fortune Magazine
Condition: Good |
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