Blood on Four Flags [historic media map, Java, Indonesia, 1945]
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“A 1945 Time magazine map by R.M. Chapin Jr turns geopolitics into graphic storytelling. “Blood on Four Flags” shows the Netherlands East Indies as a prize fought over by Dutch, Japanese, British and US interests. Red ink equals blood, islands equal resources, and nationalism..”
~ @SimonKuestenmacher
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@Time Magazine

But it’s Ghosh’s big-picture thinking that has made his nonfiction so influential. The West didn’t invent the opium trade, he writes. Instead — as with the Atlantic coast traffic in human beings — it took a pre-existing practice and expanded it exponentially to perfect “the model of the colonial narco-state.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/books/review/smoke-and-ashes-amitav-ghosh.html