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Libraries > Digital Exhibits > Illustrations from The Story
of Mankind > Visual Metaphors
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Metaphors |
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Van
Loon would playfully draw visual metaphors, typically on his
maps. These were objects meant to symbolize some historical
phenomenon, for example, a cauldron in the middle of Mesopotamia
as a way to symbolize “The Melting Pot of the Ancient
World,” a wall or fence to represent the boundaries
of an empire, or the branches of a tree to show the spread
of a word into different languages. |
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| "Mesopotamia,
the Melting-pot of the Ancient World," p. 30 |
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"The
Story of a Word," p. 45 |
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"The
Great Roman Empire," p. 117 |
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"The
Monroe Doctrine," p. 385 |
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| "The
Holy Roman Empire of German Nationality," p. 147 |
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