Angling in troubled waters = der fischfang im truben = la peche en eau trouble = la pesca nelle acque turbes : a serio-comic map of Europe
Angling in troubled waters
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Angling in troubled waters = der fischfang im truben = la peche en eau trouble = la pesca nelle acque turbes : a serio-comic map of Europe
Title (alt.):
Serio-comic map of Europe
Fischfang im truben
Peche en eau trouble
Pesca nelle acque turbes
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Political boundaries and power struggles define this work. The 19th-century “serio-comic map” caricaturizes each European country as a fisherman, holding a sack with its imperial catch, or about to lose what it has caught. Serving as an allegory for European colonial interference elsewhere, this type of “persuasive” map influenced and reflected popular opinion, much like a political cartoon.