500 years of European colonialism, in one animated map - Vox
▻http://www.vox.com/2014/5/8/5691954/colonialism-collapse-gif-imperialism
C’est bien beau tout ça, mais ça ne tient pas compte des situations néo-coloniales contemporaines. Un projet carto en germe, non ? à mettre sur la liste ?
One of the things that bothers people so much about Russia’s slow play to gobble up chunks of Ukraine is that countries, by and large, have stopped annexing each others’ territory since World War II. This modern success is all the more remarkable by the fact that, for most of history, countries loved to conquer land and subjugate the people living there.
https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/assets/4421631/colonialism.gif 
https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/fC5Oaw0ynEWT4K5JPMREWcfbXP0=/0x30:2039x1389/755x504/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/32684979/3320188__2_.0.jpg European colonialism has been far and away the worst offender in this regard in the last 500 years. Take a look at this GIF charting the rise and fall of (mostly) European empires from 1492, when the European discovery of the Americas kicked off their movement west and south, to 2008.
#cartographie #colonialisme #représentation #néo-colonialisme
