Research Catalog

Title

Subject nationalities of the German alliance : from the Allies' peace terms as stated in their reply to President Wilson's note of 19th Dec. 1916.

Author

Edward Stanford Ltd.

Publication

London : Stanford's Geographical Establishment, [1917]

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Details

Description

1 map : lithograph, color; 71 x 92 cm

Summary

"In December 1916, President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, as the leader of the world's most important neutral power, put forward a plan to end World War I with a "peace without victory." Wilson asked the Allied and Central powers to state their terms for peace. In their reply to Wilson's note, the Allied powers declared: "The civilized world knows that the aims of the Allies include the reorganization of Europe, guaranteed by a stable settlement, based alike upon the principle of nationalities on the right which all peoples, whether small or great, have to the enjoyment of full security and free economic development." The French and British had no interest in negotiating a peace without victory or in granting what Wilson called self-determination to their own subject peoples. They were, however, keen to use the nationality issue as part of their propaganda campaign against their enemies. This map of 1917, published in Britain but based on prewar German sources, highlights the ethnic diversity of and the large number of subject peoples in the populations of the powers of the German alliance. Imperial Germany itself was relatively homogeneous, with 92 percent of its population composed of ethnic Germans. Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were a different story, however. As shown in the tables in the upper-right hand corner of the map, the Austrian-ruled part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was only 35 percent German, while the Hungarian-ruled parts of the dual monarchy were only 48 percent Magyar. Ethnic Turks comprised only 35 percent of the population of the Ottoman Empire. Shading on the map is used to show the regions inhabited by the different peoples, which included Slavs of various nationalities, Romanians, Italians, and, in the Ottoman Empire, Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, and others. After World War I, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires were dissolved in accordance with the principle of national self-determination and replaced by smaller states. Germany became even more ethnically homogeneous, as it lost most of its territories inhabited by Poles, Alsatians, Danes, and other minority peoples. The scale of the map is approximately 1:4,300,000."

Subject

• 1914-1918
• Nationalism > Eurasia > Maps
• World War, 1914-1918 > Eurasia > Maps
• Nationalism
• Population
• Eurasia > Population > Maps
• Eurasia

Genre/Form

• Maps.
• Maps – Eurasia – 1917.

Note

• "This map drawn from German sources (especially the All-Deutscher Atlas edited by Paul Langhans and published at Gotha by Justus Perthes in 1905) shows the nationalities which are actually subject to Germany and her Allies."
• Includes text, statistics of "Total populations of the German alliance, censuses of 1910" and tables showing populations by nationality.

Call Number

Map Div. 22-2113

LCCN

2004628224

OCLC

54349642

Author

Edward Stanford Ltd.

Title

Subject nationalities of the German alliance : from the Allies' peace terms as stated in their reply to President Wilson's note of 19th Dec. 1916.

Publisher

London : Stanford's Geographical Establishment, [1917]

Cartographic Data

Scale approximately 1:4,300,000

Type of Content

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

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Leventhal Map Center

Chronological Term

1914-1918

Research Call Number

Map Div. 22-2113 [Filed as Europe Parts 1917]