Introduction / Balachandra Rajan, Elizabeth Sauer 1
1. Dominion as Domesticity: Milton's Imperial God and the Experience of History / Janel Mueller 25
2. The "Lordly eye": Milton and the Strategic Geography of Empire / Bruce McLeod 48
3. Imperial Dialectic: Milton and Conquered Peoples / Sharon Achinstein 67
4. Milton and the New World: Custom, Relativism, and the Discipline of Shame / Paul Stevens 90
5. Ecology and Empire / Diane Kelsey McColley 112
6. Cromwell, Milton, and the Western Design / Robert Thomas Fallon 133
7. Milton and "the complication of interests" in Early Modern Ireland / Willy Maley 155
8. Colonials Write the Nation: Spenser, Milton, and England on the Margins / Linda Gregerson 169
9. "The destin'd Walls / Of Cambalu": Milton, China, and the Ambiguities of the East / Robert Markley 191
10. Religious Toleration and Imperial Intolerance / Elizabeth Sauer 214
11. Acts of Kind Service: Milton and the Patriot Literature of Empire / Nicholas von Maltzahn 233
12. "Greek & Latin Slaves of the Sword": Rejecting the Imperial Nation in Blake's Milton / Julia M. Wright 255
13. Milton and Education / Gauri Viswanathan 273
14. The Imperial Temptation / Balachandra Rajan 294
15. Afterword: An Ironic Act of Courage / Homi K. Bhabha 315
Notes 323
Notes on the Contributors 366
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