[H&F] "Malta in the Mediterranean, or the Meaning of Maps"

[rfmcdpei]

I've a post up at History and Futility that riffs on Malta's different locations in different imagined worlds--southern bulwark of Europe against a menacing Africa, or a bastion of Western expansion into the Maghreb--to make points about how meaning in maps is derived from interpretations of different relationships at least as much as simple geographic coordinates.

Go, read.