#eastindies — Public Fediverse posts
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Blood on Four Flags [historic media map, Java, Indonesia, 1945]
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https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~299462~90070602:Blood-on-Four-Flags- shared #DavidRumseyMapCollection scanned map
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“A 1945 Time magazine map by R.M. Chapin Jr turns geopolitics into graphic storytelling. “Blood on Four Flags” shows the Netherlands East Indies as a prize fought over by Dutch, Japanese, British and US interests. Red ink equals blood, islands equal resources, and nationalism..”
~ @SimonKuestenmacher
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#spatial #mapping #Java #Sumatra #Indonesia #cartography #CartographyAsPropaganda #Japanese #Invasion #Dutch #Colony #SEAsia #WorldWar2 #colonialism #naturalresources #oil #sugar #coffee #coal #economy #resources #exploitation #rubber #Netherlands #EastIndies #colony #nationalism #infographic #pictorial #imagery #geopolitics #Soekarnoites #wartime #propaganda
@Time Magazine -
Blood on Four Flags [historic media map, Java, Indonesia, 1945]
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https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~299462~90070602:Blood-on-Four-Flags- shared #DavidRumseyMapCollection scanned map
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“A 1945 Time magazine map by R.M. Chapin Jr turns geopolitics into graphic storytelling. “Blood on Four Flags” shows the Netherlands East Indies as a prize fought over by Dutch, Japanese, British and US interests. Red ink equals blood, islands equal resources, and nationalism..”
~ @SimonKuestenmacher
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#spatial #mapping #Java #Sumatra #Indonesia #cartography #CartographyAsPropaganda #Japanese #Invasion #Dutch #Colony #SEAsia #WorldWar2 #colonialism #naturalresources #oil #sugar #coffee #coal #economy #resources #exploitation #rubber #Netherlands #EastIndies #colony #nationalism #infographic #pictorial #imagery #geopolitics #Soekarnoites #wartime #propaganda
@Time Magazine -
Blood on Four Flags [historic media map, Java, Indonesia, 1945]
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https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~299462~90070602:Blood-on-Four-Flags- shared #DavidRumseyMapCollection scanned map
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“A 1945 Time magazine map by R.M. Chapin Jr turns geopolitics into graphic storytelling. “Blood on Four Flags” shows the Netherlands East Indies as a prize fought over by Dutch, Japanese, British and US interests. Red ink equals blood, islands equal resources, and nationalism..”
~ @SimonKuestenmacher
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#spatial #mapping #Java #Sumatra #Indonesia #cartography #CartographyAsPropaganda #Japanese #Invasion #Dutch #Colony #SEAsia #WorldWar2 #colonialism #naturalresources #oil #sugar #coffee #coal #economy #resources #exploitation #rubber #Netherlands #EastIndies #colony #nationalism #infographic #pictorial #imagery #geopolitics #Soekarnoites #wartime #propaganda
@Time Magazine -
Blood on Four Flags [historic media map, Java, Indonesia, 1945]
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https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~299462~90070602:Blood-on-Four-Flags- shared #DavidRumseyMapCollection scanned map
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“A 1945 Time magazine map by R.M. Chapin Jr turns geopolitics into graphic storytelling. “Blood on Four Flags” shows the Netherlands East Indies as a prize fought over by Dutch, Japanese, British and US interests. Red ink equals blood, islands equal resources, and nationalism..”
~ @SimonKuestenmacher
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#spatial #mapping #Java #Sumatra #Indonesia #cartography #CartographyAsPropaganda #Japanese #Invasion #Dutch #Colony #SEAsia #WorldWar2 #colonialism #naturalresources #oil #sugar #coffee #coal #economy #resources #exploitation #rubber #Netherlands #EastIndies #colony #nationalism #infographic #pictorial #imagery #geopolitics #Soekarnoites #wartime #propaganda
@Time Magazine -
Blood on Four Flags [historic media map, Java, Indonesia, 1945]
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https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~299462~90070602:Blood-on-Four-Flags- shared #DavidRumseyMapCollection scanned map
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“A 1945 Time magazine map by R.M. Chapin Jr turns geopolitics into graphic storytelling. “Blood on Four Flags” shows the Netherlands East Indies as a prize fought over by Dutch, Japanese, British and US interests. Red ink equals blood, islands equal resources, and nationalism..”
~ @SimonKuestenmacher
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#spatial #mapping #Java #Sumatra #Indonesia #cartography #CartographyAsPropaganda #Japanese #Invasion #Dutch #Colony #SEAsia #WorldWar2 #colonialism #naturalresources #oil #sugar #coffee #coal #economy #resources #exploitation #rubber #Netherlands #EastIndies #colony #nationalism #infographic #pictorial #imagery #geopolitics #Soekarnoites #wartime #propaganda
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But it’s Ghosh’s big-picture thinking that has made his nonfiction so influential. The West didn’t invent the opium trade, he writes. Instead — as with the Atlantic coast traffic in human beings — it took a pre-existing practice and expanded it exponentially to perfect “the model of the colonial narco-state.”
#History #BookReview #India #China #BritishEmpire #EastIndies #OpiumWars
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/books/review/smoke-and-ashes-amitav-ghosh.html