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Winner of The Adele Mellen Prize for Excellence in Scholarship This is the first book-length study of one of Great Britain’s most important and prolific engravers, cartographers and geographers, Herman Moll (1654?-1732), and his work. It puts his life and singular geographies and maps into the historical context of late-17th/early 18th century London at the dawn of the British Empire. It also examines the often-symbiotic interaction of Moll with an exceptional circle of contemporaries: Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Robert Hooke, John Locke, William Dampier, Woodes Rogers, and William Stukeley. Methodologically and somewhat uniquely for an historical study, this book makes major use of maps and other graphics as sources to reconstruct the history of Moll, his life and times, and friends. Other England Books 2010 – THE LIFE OF THE FOURTH EARL OF ROCHFORD (1717-1781): Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Courtier, Diplomat and Statesman 2008 – SIR ARTHUR SULLIVANS GRAND OPERA Ivanhoe AND ITS MUSICAL PRECURSORS: Adaptations of Sir Walter Scotts Novel for the Stage, 1819-1891 1997 –
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