Exhibits containing tag : ken-habeeb

Various China Maps From the Collection of Ken Habeeb

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Eight Interesting Aspects: The Biggest Little Battle in American History - Ron Gibbs

In this exhibit's DOT story, Dr. Ron Gibbs takes us through a 1777 British map of the "biggest little battle in American history." The battle involved fewer than 4,000 soldiers, but it saved the cause of American independence at one of its lowest ebbs.Ronald S. Gibbs, M.D. is a physician, map collector, medical researcher, and author at Stanford University now serving as the president of the California Map Society. He has written several articles on 18th-century military medicine, as well as two novels about the American Revolution: The Long Shot: The Secret History of 1776 and The Rogue's Plot: The Untold Story of 1777.You can see more of his work at https://ronaldsgibbs.com/about-american-revolution.

Eight Interesting Aspects - The Last Continent Explored: Slavery, Commodities, and Peril - Ken Habeeb

Kenneth Habeeb is a writer and map collector who has contributed pieces for Calafia, the journal of the California Map Society. His collecting interests include maps of Africa and, more recently, of China during the Opium Wars.Today, he presents "Africa, According to Mr. D'Anville," an extraordinary and at times bizarre snapshot of European beliefs about Africa in the decades before widespread European conquest on the continent.Created and presented by Ken Habeeb.Adapted and edited by Andrew Gu, Pixeum Intern for Summer 2024.keywords: khabeeb

Various Maps from the Collection of Ken Habeeb

Various maps from the collection of Ken Habeeb. Does not include maps of Africa and China, which can be found here and here.keywords: khabeeb

Arrowsmith Atlas of 1812

This exhibit was put together by Ken Habeeb and Tom Paper when Ken had a map whose origin he did not know. Ken presented about his map, the one Tom Paper found at Rumsey, which is the Arrowsmith map, as well as the 1804 Wilkinson map, also from Rumsey, that has far more information on it. Ken spoke about both of these maps in his presentation on February 5, 2022 to the Bay Area Map Group.Rumseykeywords: khabeeb

Various Africa Maps from the collection of Ken Habeeb

5/28/2023 Ken Habeeb: "Some years back while I was reading about slave trading out of the African continent, I ran across the phrase 'The White Man's Grave.' What could that mean? After I joined the California Map Society, I saw that pre-1800 maps showed the vast African Interior as being largely "unknown," and I wrote an article about that for the Society's magazine, Calafia. But I was still unclear about African history. Why was so little of it recorded by anyone outside of its own indigenous peoples? Hadn't its interior been explored and developed by the advanced nations? The Spanish, English, and French, after all, had already been colonizing the Americas for four hundred years! Well, the fact is, Africa was the last continent to be explored by anybody - by a lot, and Central Africa, in particular wasn't penetrated by the otherwise curious and pecuniary Europeans until the late 19th century. Really. But why?! So, more digging, and some amazing exploration stories were revealed as I dug in. The Scot, Mungo Park, various Englishmen (and later women) all had a go exploring the central African interior around the turn of the eighteenth century. Later, Germans, the French, and Americans took their turns as well. The exploration of Africa had been delayed for hundreds of years because the African interior was extremely dangerous -- and for a number or reasons. Disease (multiple), the hardship of travel into and around dense jungle and desert, extreme weather, inhospitable indigenous tribes - any or all could conspire to ruin one's foray inland from the coast. Over time, the continent had indeed earned the sobriquet of The White Man's Grave, and all business for centuries, including slavery was conducted only from forts and towns along the coastline. Today, African countries are determiing their own fate by trading and realizing mineral and floral riches, but only after the sacrifice of a hundred intrepid explorers alongside the sad fate of millions of Africans sold into slavery. I look at African maps now, be they 15th century or later, as graphic records of a rich continent mostly unknown, with an amazing variety of peoples only guessed at, and redolent of some fascinating exploration stories." Ken Habeeb @kenhabeeb 5/28/2023keywords: khabeeb, printsforsale