John Speed’s cartographic invention of early imperial Britain (1610s-1620s)
This article examines how the second part of John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611-12), entitled The Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the world (1627), expresses nascent imperial ideals and ambitions through a medium which is claimed to be truthful and objective. Speed’s atla...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:interfaces_10301 https://doi.org/10.4000/14tnz urn:doi:10.4000/14tnz en https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/10301 2025-10-01T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/14tnz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ John Speed’s cartographic invention of early imperial Britain (1610s-1620s) Interfaces Université Bourgogne Europe info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2647-6754 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1164-6225 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces McCarthy, Louise Great Britain cartography empire Speed (John) promotional discourse performativity cartographie empire Speed (John) rhétorique propagandiste Grande Bretagne performativité This article examines how the second part of John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611-12), entitled The Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the world (1627), expresses nascent imperial ideals and ambitions through a medium which is claimed to be truthful and objective. Speed’s atlas embraces the selective process inherent to cartography and exploits the ambiguities of an incomplete mapping of the world to amplify, naturalise and encourage colonial or commercial ventures at a time when the British had only a handful of factories in Asia and a small straggling colony in North America to show for. Cet article étudie la manière dont la deuxième partie du Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611-12) de John Speed, The Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the world (1627), exprime un impérialisme naissant sous couvert de véracité et d’objectivité. En jouant de la nécessité de sélection inhérente au projet cartographique, l’atlas de Speed met à profit les ambiguïtés d’une cartographie incomplète du monde pour amplifier, enraciner et encourager les ambitions coloniales ou commerciales britanniques au début du xviie siècle, alors même que les Britanniques n’ont à leur actif que quelques comptoirs asiatiques et une petite colonie en difficulté en Amérique du Nord. |
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This article examines how the second part of John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611-12), entitled The Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the world (1627), expresses nascent imperial ideals and ambitions through a medium which is claimed to be truthful and objective. Speed’s atlas embraces the selective process inherent to cartography and exploits the ambiguities of an incomplete mapping of the world to amplify, naturalise and encourage colonial or commercial ventures at a time when the British had only a handful of factories in Asia and a small straggling colony in North America to show for. |
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