Sunday, November 22, 2009

The Decline and Fall of Assorted Empires

A visualization of four European empires over the course of the 19th and 20th Centuries:



The bubbles respresent "the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by [areal] extent"; hence Britain's loss of Canada looks like a more significant bursting of the imperial bubble than its loss of India, even though India is obviously a far more important place than Canada.

Via Andrew Sullivan and 3quarksdaily.
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11 comments:

  1. lemurNovember 23, 2009 at 12:36 AM

    Why doesn't Pakistan become independent until ~1957, while India does in 1949? Also, why do they show Cuba becoming independent of Spain so early?

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  2. RoyNovember 23, 2009 at 4:32 AM

    And why at the end are Spain and Portugal left so large - what are they defining as their "empires"? The Canaries, Azores and Madeira? I don't think they count as dependencies.

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  3. ChachyNovember 23, 2009 at 11:32 AM

    lemur - Pakistan was a Dominion until 1956 - de facto independent, and 1947 would probably be a better date for marking its severing from British imperial rule. As for Cuba: good question.

    Roy - the circles seem to include the homelands. Which is almost all that's left of any of them by the 21st century.

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  4. DohsanNovember 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM

    Wow, didn't realize Angola and Mozambique were so large. Meanwhile, the big red blob kept expanding up until WWI.

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  5. Gus SnarpNovember 30, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    That is the coolest visualization I've ever seen.

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  6. Piper2012December 2, 2009 at 12:32 AM

    "Britain's loss of Canada looks like a more significant bursting of the imperial bubble than its loss of India, even though India is obviously a far more important place than Canada."

    Congratulations for completely contradicting yourself within a single sentence.

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