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Cargando... Nowherelands: An Atlas of Vanished Countries 1840-1975por Bjørn Berge
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   Den85 | Jan 3, 2024 |  Författaren berättar om bortglömda länder från 1840 till 1970. Vissa existerade bara i några månader, andra i ett år och något i ett decennium innan de försvann. Här återfinns gåtfulla namn som Heligoland och Tripolitanien, och läsaren får ta del av den spännande bakgrunden till länder som Manchukuo och Allenstein. CalleFriden | Feb 16, 2023 | While some of the entries could never be considered "countries", I was often surprised by the number of places I had never heard of before and Berg never lets the story drag. I can only hope there is a vol. II on the way. (  ) MiaCulpa | Jul 1, 2019 |  ) liz.mabry | May 13, 2019 | Author: Bjorn Berge Publisher: Thames and Hudson Date: 2017 Pgs: 240 Dewey: 909.8 BER Disposition: Irving Public Library - South Campus - Irving, TX _________________________________________________ REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS Summary: Short histories of countries that were born and disappeared in the interim between 1840 and 1975. Takes the issuance of stamps as a sign of the legitimacy of the countries. The idea being that they endured long enough to issue stamps. Imperialism, racism, ideology, oil, mineral wealth, war, blood, fire. _________________________________________________ Genre: Crafts Hobbies Antiques Collectibles Stamps Social Sciences Geography Reference Atlases Why this book: History. Maps. The world. _________________________________________________ The Feel: The author’s sly style comes through in the text. As we advance toward the present, the NWLs become more clearly pictured, more information and detail, though that makes sense. Pacing: The aforementioned author’s style gives you a forward impetus through the book. In short vignettes the author gives you a quick, simple grounding in the history of these Nowherelands. Quote: The President of the Senate of Danzig despaired as he saw his Polish home, not become German as he desired but Nazi. “Here one man is leading a whole age absurdum...The beast from the abyss has been let loose.” An author living in Trieste commenting on his home saying “it gave me the feeling of being nowhere.” Considering the blood, fire, spit, and spite that most NWLs have havinging over them, maybe Trieste was lucky. Word Choice / Usage: The Lord Baden-Powell quote from the story of Mafeking, certainly, does his prestige no additional glory. His own words paint him in a rotten light. He had to found the Boy Scouts to attempt to balance his karma if nothing else. Plot Holes/Out of Character: Bjarte Breiteig’s story doesn’t have an answer. The side story as a illustration of life on Ile Sainte Marie doesn’t deliver. What happened to his wife, Tonje? The baby? How did he survive to share his accounting of what happened? Pretty big hole in his story there. Hmm Moments: The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies sounds like a horrible place. The fall of the Two Sicilies and its role in the growth of Mafia power in America is interesting. The serf-aristocrat model immigrates. Heligoland that could have been a North Sea Florence, instead became a smuggling clearinghouse built on sandstone between Britain, her colonies, and the German interior. It is fascinating looking at where these countries are now in comparison to when they were their own independent apparatuses. In our era of separatism and nationalism, I wonder if any of these nowherelands may resurface. My knowledge of Fiume and Carnarro was non-existent a few months ago. I read a steampunk sci fi by Bruce Sterling “Pirate Utopia’ that was based in and on Fiume and Carnarro. I didn’t realize at the time that it was a real place beyond the place names. Or its infamy as a birthplace for Mussolini’s fascists. D’Annunzio could be/is a direct philo-political forebear of, and title namesake of, Il Duce. D’Annunzio used the same title while ruling Fiume and Carnarro. The description of the Tangiers International Zone made me think of Casablanca, the movie. And left me wondering if Casablanca was inside the Zone. A map consultation and comparison, yhes, the description was apt. WTF Moments: The Tasmanian, nee Van Dieman’s Land, treatment of aboriginals was horrific. Meh / PFFT Moments: After Heligoland faced down the Napoleonic Wars and the end of smuggling, she hung her shingle on being a healthy cold water spa resort, not her best toss. Leading further into decline. And Heligoland being , by and large, sandstone lead it further into erosion. Their nowhereland was disappearing and disappearing. Heligoland was a naval base for Germany after being traded by the British to the German Confederation. Nazi Germany expanded the base. And World War 2 lead Heligoland to being a cratered bombed out wasteland. Once a larger island group, today, all that remains is a bare 420 acres of land beyond the mouth of the Elbe. Some of the examples are more concerned with the stamps than with the history and existence of these Nowherelands. Though in some cases the stamps are all that remains of these vanished countries. Imagine how differently things might have gone if the Danish West Indies, today’s US Virgin Islands, had been sold to Germany instead. How might the Zimmermann affair turned differently in Mexico. How might the World Wars have played out with Germany squatting on the trade routes into the Panama Canal. U-boats and planes based in the Caribbean. That would change much. The Saltpetre War between Peru, Bolivia, and Chile was a drug war. Fueled by the profits from gunpowder, but Chile loading their soldiers up on a mix of gunpowder and spirits called chupilca del diablo turning them into berserkers. Wonder that Peru and Bolivia didn’t load theirs up on coca leaves and have drug fueled berserker vs drug fueled berserker. Wisdom: The licking of the backs of the historical NWL stamps seems unhealthy and, oh so, gross. All those flavors aren’t strawberry. The one that he describes as slaughterhouse rendering. Urp. The description of the favors of NWL stamps’ glues and unguents by taste is disgusting. Double urp. _________________________________________________ Last Page Sound: Penal colonies in malarial swamps until they turn a profit, indigenous populations until they discover gold or oil, largely free until colonial interest rears its head from the home country, it is a NWL pattern. NWL ends in 1975. I wonder how many NWLs there are between ‘75 and the present beyond the obvious ones: Soviet Union, East Germany, all those Balkan unions that came out of WW1 and lived under communism only to fall apart post fall. Author Assessment: Would read more by this author. Editorial Assessment: With one rare exception, this was well edited. Knee Jerk Reaction: really good book, _________________________________________________ (  )1  texascheeseman | Mar 1, 2018 |
 De ondertitel van het boek geeft zeer goed de inhoud weer “Vijftig markante landen die niet meer bestaan.” Aan de hand van postzegels die uitgegeven zijn in de verdwenen landen beschrijft Bjørn Berge in een aantal pagina’s, kort de geschiedenis van landen die inmiddels verdwenen zijn. En de geschiedenis heeft heel wat bizarre landen opgeleverd. Landen die soms niet lander dan maar een paar weken of maanden hebben bestaan maar toch tijdens dit korte “leven” postzegels hebben uitgegeven. Het boek beslaat een periode van 1840 tot 1975…lees verder >
A multitude of countries that once existed have since been erased from the map. Varying vastly in size and shape, location and longevity, the fifty 'nowherelands' in this book are united by one fact: all of them endured long enough to issue their own stamps. Some of their names, such as Biafra or New Brunswick, will be relatively familiar. Others, such as Labuan, Tannu Tuva, and Inini, are far less recognizable. But all of these lost nations have stories to tell, whether they were as short-lived as Eastern Karelia, which lasted only a few weeks during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1922, or as long-lasting as the Orange Free State, a Boer Republic that celebrated fifty years as an independent state in the late 1800s. Their broad spectrum reflects the entire history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with its ideologies, imperialism, waves of immigration, and conflicts both major and minor. The motifs and symbols chosen for stamps have always served as a form of national self-presentation, an expression of the aims and ambitions of the ruling authorities. Drawing on fiction and eye-witness accounts as well as historical sources, Bjorn Berge's witty text casts an unconventional eye on these lesser-known nations. Nowherelands is a different kind of history book that will intrigue anyone keen to understand what makes a nation a nation. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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