Stream of Time, Or Chart of Universal History, From the Original German of Strass
Strass, Friedrich; revised by D. Haskel
Sold by James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
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Sold by James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Association Member:
AbeBooks Seller since 7 December 2016
Hand-colored lithograph mounted on original linen and affixed to wooden rods, linen selvage, 45" x 28" plus margins. CONDITION: Very good, a few small losses. An American edition of Friedrich Strass s Strom der Zeiten, an extraordinary chart depicting history as a great system of streams and lakes. Colton s version of Strass s influential chart was first published in 1842. The edition offered here is updated to 1846, which witnessed the outbreak of the Mexican American War (1846 48), and the ratification of the Oregon Treaty. Strass depicts history as a great flood of intermingling streams springing from storm clouds at the top and flowing to the bottom of the sheet. The map commences with nine streams, identified as "Jews," "Egyptians," "Phoenicians," "Syrians," "Assyrians," etc., and ends with thirty-seven individual streams, featuring the populations of each nation at the time of publication (China, 443,350,000, Turkey, 32,500,000, etc.) The explanation at the bottom of the chart reads: "Each Nation is represented by a stream, which is broken in upon or flows on undisturbed as it is influenced by the accession of Territory or the remaining at Peace." The smaller streams attached to the sides of larger streams show, by flowing upwards, conquests; downwards, losses. Lines running horizontally across the chart represent centuries, which are listed in the left and right margins; events are accorded a number to correspond with this temporal arrangement. Numbers affixed to each person or event indicate the intermediate date. Not all of the streams depicted represent nations or peoples. The leftmost stream is entitled, "Eras, Founding of Cities, Discovery and Settlement of Countries &c." Some of the important events exhibited here include, "Bonaparte cr d Emperor of France" (1804), "Declaration of Independence" (1776), etc. The two streams pictured farthest to the right represent i) "Inventions Discoveries Remarkable Events," starting with the "creation of the world"; and ii) "Great Characters &c," beginning with Adam and Eve and Cain, and featuring figures such as Schiller, Joan of Arc, Dante, et al. Well before 500 A.M., four new streams appear and many of the existing ones have already been terminated or swallowed up into other streams. Around 150 A.M., the Germans appear ex nihilo; and circa 200 A.D., the vast majority of streams empty into the Roman Empire, which after about 600 years begins to break down into various sizable streams, such as the "Western Empire" (encompassing Spain and Italy), Britain, "Eastern Empire," etc. The Roman Empire figures as the largest lake, while the least broken-up stream is that of China, which reflects incursions by the Moguls between 1200 1300. "English Colonies Settled" occurs in "[160]7 Jamestown Virginia," and thus begins the stream of American history, the final entry for which reads "[18]46 War with Mexico. Wisconsin adm[itted]." Following its first publication in 1804, Strom der Zeiten was translated into many languages. Strass s map bears the influence of the English natural philosopher Joseph Priestly who prized the graphic depiction of history over its annalistic representation. However, Strass would depart from the uniform, homogeneous chronology Priestly purveyed, instead opting for a graphic representation of history as conflict. As Rosenberg and Grafton write, in this map "events ebb and flow, fork and twist, run and roll and thunder." Strass s chart would prove to be seminal. Its influence is evident, for instance, in the pictorial maps of the American women s rights activist and educator Emma Willard (1787 1870), in particular, her 1835 "Picture of Nations or Perspective Sketch of the Course of Empire," which embraces Strass s presentation of history for the purposes Willard s own pedagogy. Colton published editions of The Stream of Time in 1842, 1845, 1846 (the present edition) and 1851, as well as an edition revised by R. S. Fisher in 1860. OCLC records one copy each of all.
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