Fernand Braudel sought ways to shake historians into an awareness that they needed to focus on geography. The second edition of La Mediterranee (1966) featured a striking image designed by famed cartographer Jacques Bertin. Maps of the Mediterranean Sea often show only a tiny slice of North Africa. To emphasize the importance of Africa to the Mediterranean, Bertin oriented the map toward the south, showing Africa looming over the Mediterranean with a relatively small slice of Europe on the other side of the sea, much as this satellite image conveys this geographic relationship. (Image courtesy of NASA.)
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