Nègres, Noirs... Du bon usage des mots en cartographie On peut, par exemple, ouvrir et comparer trois éditions (1959, 1970 et 1994) de l’atlas autrichien « Hölzel [1] », publié en France depuis le début des années 1950 par les éditions Bordas (connu sous le nom d’Atlas général Bordas dont les auteurs étaient Pierre Serryn, René Blasselle, Marc Bonnet et Henri Bordas, tous agrégés d’histoire et de géographie). La première chose qui frappe est la grande similarité des cartes thématiques de géographie physique et humaine du début de l’ouvrage : langues, religions, densité de population, mais aussi températures et précipitations. Elles sont identiques à quelques exceptions près, comme si le monde était figé : mêmes contours, mêmes couleurs, même aspect, mêmes légendes. Attardons-nous un peu plus sur la carte du peuplement dans le monde, ici intitulée « races ». Et c’est la collision. Entre ces deux cartes s’engage dès 1960 le grand mouvement de décolonisation de l’Afrique. On pourrait élargir et évoquer la vie de tous les Noirs de l’univers.
Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade. Source: slavevoyages.org For the full interactive version, use a larger device. Interactive by Andrew Kahn. Background image by Tim Jones. Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But as we discussed in Episode 2 of Slate’s History of American Slavery Academy, relative to the entire slave trade, North America was a bit player. This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations. History of American Slavery, Ep 2: The Atlantic slave trade during its heyday and the remarkable life of Olaudah Equiano. There are a few trends worth noting. In the 1700s, however, Spanish transport diminishes and is replaced (and exceeded) by British, French, Dutch, and—by the end of the century—American activity. Enroll now in a different kind of summer school.
Remittance Flows Worldwide in 2012 U.S. top sending country; India top receiving country Please select a country on the map in remittances were sent from to other countries in 2012 in remittances were sent to from other countries in 2012 Patterns of global migration have shifted in recent decades and those changes, along with the ups-and-downs of the economy, have also resulted in changes in the flow of remittances —the money that many migrants send back to families in their countries of origin. International migrants sent $529 billion in remittances back to their home countries in 2012, according to the World Bank. Tracking remittances worldwide is difficult because many countries do not track funds that are sent or received. No Data Available There was no data provided for the selected field. "Remittances" are funds or other assets sent to their home countries by migrants, either themselves or in the form of compensation for border, short-term and seasonal employees (World Bank, 2013).
Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate - study A study says Germany's birth rate has slumped to the lowest in the world, prompting fears labour market shortages will damage the economy. Germany has dropped below Japan to have not just the lowest birth rate across Europe but also globally, according to the report by Germany-based analysts. Its authors warned of the effects of a shrinking working-age population. They said women's participation in the workforce would be key to the country's economic future. In Germany, an average of 8.2 children were born per 1,000 inhabitants over the past five years, according to the study by German auditing firm BDO with the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI). It said Japan saw 8.4 children born per 1,000 inhabitants over the same time period. In Europe, Portugal and Italy came in second and third with an average of 9.0 and 9.3 children, respectively. Meanwhile, the highest birth rates were in Africa, with Niger at the top of the list with 50 births per 1,000 people.
Mapping Language A small but significant part of Bartholomew’s printed output consisted of thematic mapping. Thematic maps are used to illustrate the distribution of phenomena, as opposed to the more common topographical map, which is an attempt to reproduce a landscape. Bartholomew’s Printing Record includes thematic maps which show average levels of sunshine, average levels of cloudiness, the distribution of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and even the cost of posting letters throughout the world. This post is devoted to a different type of thematic map, to language, or linguistic maps. According to ‘Cartographical Innovations’ (1987), an informative book edited by Helen Wallis and Arthur Robinson, the first set of linguistic maps that we would recognise as such date from 1741. Produced by Gottfried Hensel, the four maps of continents show the distribution of written languages. Because of the specialist nature of maps like these they were typically destined for specialist publications.
Adult nappies 'outsell baby nappies' Seen as the one of the last conversation taboos, adult incontinence is a growing issue. In the UK, manufacturers believe that adult incontinence products will soon sell more than ones to deal with menstruation. The days of incontinence products being hidden on the bottom shelf seem numbered. Around the world, that transition seems already to have taken place. Incontinence is a common problem among the elderly population and, with the average age of populations across the world increasing, the Japanese market is leading the way. In Japan, people aged 65-and-over account for around a quarter of the overall population, increasing from 17.4% in 2000. And the population is not getting younger - Japan’s median age will be 53 by 2050 and the birth-rate per woman is still below two. Google The same thing could quite easily happen in the UK - 23% of the population in the UK will be 65-or-over by 2030, the ONS predicts, and the UK’s birth rate per woman has been below two since 1974. Publicity pictures
The Refugee Project Visualizing population density Slinging numbers around all day, one adage we believe is that most surprising statistics are wrong. But here’s one that’s not: When you look at the 100 most populous counties in the USA, Manhattan (aka New York County) has about twice the population density of the next densest county (Brooklyn, aka Kings County), four times the density of the 5th densest county (San Francisco), and 13 times the density of the 10th densest county (Cook County, IL, home of Chicago). Population density drops off sharply as you look at highly populated US counties, and New York City has 4 of the top 5. The graph at the top of this post represents a square kilometer and draws a dot for every person in various counties. We can be more faithful, and make things easier to imagine, if we talk about people per hectare. But what’s a hectare? Now the differences in densities are still dramatic, but it doesn’t look like people in Manhattan are packed in like sardines. Related PCA file calculation with "R". June 4, 2011
First Americans - Map: Paths to a New World Fresh discoveries are redefining our understanding of when and how humans first migrated into the Americas. Archaeological evidence now firmly suggests human occupation began some 15,500 years ago, not 13,000 years ago, as previously thought. In 2014 advances in DNA analysis enabled the first sequencing of a full Paleo-American genome, at the Anzick site in western Montana—confirmation that the ancestors of modern Native Americans did indeed originate from a population in Asia. Martin Gamache, NGM staff: Amanda Hobbs; Sources: David G.
China’s one-child policy led to my adoption — and a more privileged life Ricki Mudd lives in SeaTac, Wash. “Ricki’s Promise,” a documentary based on her reunion with her birth family, will be screened at the Library of Congress’s James Madison Memorial Building on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 12 p.m. ‘So what time does your flight get into Sea-Tac?” To me, it seemed a fairly basic question. But it confused my brother, Wu Chao, who was texting me from China. At 19, he’d never been on an international flight before. Eventually, I got him to send me his ticket confirmation. Sometimes it’s odd to think that between us, Wu Chao is supposedly the privileged child — the boy preferred by Chinese society, the son my family held out for while I was hidden and ultimately put up for adoption. I’m among the more than 100,000 children adopted from China by Western families since the early 1990s. In this scene from the 2014 documentary film "Ricki's Promise," Wu Chao's sister, Ricki Mudd (Mengting), tries to reconnect with him during her trip to China.