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The Essential List , 1500-2000 (in three parts) German History Maps
The Essential List, 1500-1870. German History Maps I
German History Maps, 1500-1870 Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN A collection of maps – some interactive, some are archival, others are fashioned by the author using ArcGIS.
- Consolidation and the so-called Unification of Germany. Mid nineteenth-century contemporaries were aware of the consolidation of territorial space as increasingly national territory., with nationalists convinced that the process was foreordained by history.
- Religious groups within the German Empire. Unification did not mean unity. The German Empire was divided in religious, political, and ethnic or national terms.
- The City and the Country. Industrialization, Class, and Universal Manhood Suffrage. Germany counted among the earliest countries to adopt universal manhood suffrage in national elections, even though the democratic pressure of the parliament (the Reichstag) on the actual federal government remained limited.
- Language, Ethnicity, Race. Native language, ethnicity (if we imagine for the sake of a mapping argument that it counts as roughly the same thing) and race also came to divide citizens in the German Empire.
Ethnic and Linguistic Map of Germany, 1872 (Völker- und Sprachen-Karte von Deutschland) (Heinrich Kiepert) Germany, 1890: Population Density. Linguistic (Dialect) Map of Germany, 1905: Karte der Deutschen Mundarten (Emil Maurmann) Alsace-Lorraine, 1910. A collection of historical maps covering the history of Germany from its beginning to our ...
The Federal Archives’ holdings include more than 1.9 million maps, plans and technical drawings. These are mostly military maps and plans. The digitisation of these large formats poses an immense technical challenge that requires special scanning systems. The Federal Archives plans to intensify these efforts over the next few years.
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