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Tagged: Paul Langhans

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The Black Triangle. German Colonialism in Oceania and the Hunt for Gutta-Percha

The cartouche of the Colonial Wall Map, which was first produced by the Justus Perthes publishing house in 1909, is artistically drawn.1 A black-and-white frame surrounds several colourful maps showing the Pacific Ocean regions that were part of the German colonial empire between 1899 and 1914. The drawings depict several raw materials that were found in and exported from the...

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Disease Maps and Policy: The Case of the ‘Manchurian Plague’

In the autumn of 1910, the first reports appeared in the local press in Manchuria, a region in the Northeast of China, that there had been cases of a deadly pneumonic plague in the city of Harbin. The fight against this disease, which would become known as the “Manchurian plague,” became in many ways a precedent for the Chinese government,...

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Drawing Colonial Lines: Between Armchair Cartography and On-Site Observation

On May 16, 1893, the cartographer Paul Langhans (1867–1952) wrote to German explorer Joachim Graf von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (1857–1924), a former farmer in the Orange Free State and colonial politician: “Highly esteemed Count! […] The crossing of Neu-Mecklenburg in 1:200,000 is now in autography, […]. I request a short text for the map, according to which also the lettering...