The Map That Remade an Empire

to be made anew, it would have to be seen anew. Richard Edes Harrison's influential pilot's-eye-view map, first published in 1941, both reflected and facilitated a changing vision of the United States' place in the international order. The map put the country in the middle of a portrait of global mutual obligation and threat—not a conqueror so much as the pivot around which the world would be organized. Look