Herman Moll's The World Described (1720): Mapping Britain's Global and Imperial Interests

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Herman Moll's The World Described (1720): Mapping Britain's Global and Imperial Interests

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ISSN: 0308-5694
E-ISSN: 1479-7801
DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2016.1107370

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Herman Moll's The World Described (1720), the pre-eminent folio atlas of Hanoverian Britain, departs from the usual Ortelian model in the selection and ordering of its contents. It placed Britain at the centre of the atlas so that the first half provided a cartographic description of Britain's...