Any serious study into the Edwardian era will unearth a stunning array of double-dealing, back-biting, secret treaties, war-mongering, and imperialistic dreams between European, American, and Asian nations, which resulted in tension so thick, you could cut with it a rattling saber. I plan to discuss more of what GD Falksen so cleverly called “the steampunk cold war” (which it is, in the context of both steampunk and real life history), but for now, I leave you with a few tragically funny maps drawn by political satirists of the day. Click on the maps for a closer look.
Serio-comic Map of Europe, 1877
Angling in Troubled Waters, 1899A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia, 1904Chinese view of the world, 1912
Map 1 from here, Map 2 from here, Map 3 from here, Map 4 from here.
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That’s cool! The octopus makes me think of Cthulhu.