Lucas Pierre
By Lucas Pierre
Categories: History
Every map tells a story, and some maps were drawn to hide the truth. \Welcome to the Lucas Pierre podcast
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Recent episodes
- How Single-Crop Empires Broke the Soil
Why do so many fertile countries in the Global South export a single crop like cocoa, coffee, cotton, or sugar while having to import basic food? Lucas Pierre explores the ecological genius of indigenous polyculture systems—from the Andean terraces to the Three Sisters—and shows how colonial cash…
- Why All the Colonial Railroads Went to the Sea
Did colonial empires really modernize the world by building railroads? Comparing nineteenth-century railway maps of Europe with colonial networks in Africa and Asia, Lucas Pierre reveals why colonial tracks only ran in straight lines from inland mines to shipping ports, and how protectionist laws…
- The Stolen Bronzes and the Myth of Empty Land
Behind the polite museum labels that say "Acquired in 1897" lies a story of erased civilizations. Lucas Pierre examines the Kingdom of Benin in West Africa—a metropolis with street lighting, ten thousand miles of earthworks, and master-cast brass plaques recording centuries of history—and explains…
- The Straight Lines Drawn With Foreign Rulers
Nature never draws a straight line across five hundred miles of earth—so why is the map of Africa and the Middle East covered in dead-straight geometric borders? University lecturer Lucas Pierre rolls out the map of the 1884 Berlin Conference to show how diplomats divided continents they had never…
- Unlearning the Mercator Map on the Classroom Wall
On the standard classroom wall map, Greenland looks the same size as Africa—yet in reality, Africa is fourteen times larger. In this fifth lecture, Lucas Pierre unpacks the history of the 1569 Mercator navigation chart, explaining how it was used during the age of empire to inflate northern powers…
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