Amazon.com description: Product Description: Large 8vo. vi (ii), 376 pp, Introduction by Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer, I. Contexts: 1. Dominion as Domesticity: Milton's Imperial God and the Experience of History by Janel Mueller; 2. The "Lordly Eye": Milton and the Strategic Geography of Empire by Bruce McLeod; 3. Imperial Dilectic: Milton and Conquered Peoples by Sharon Achinstein; 4. Milton and the New World: Custom, Relativism, and the Discipline of Shame by Paul Stevens; 5. Ecology and Empire by Diane Kelsey McColley. II. Terrains: 6. Cromwell, Milton, and the Western Design by Robert Thomas Fallon; 7. Milton and "The Complication of Interest" in Early Modern Ireland by Willy Maley; 8. Colonials Write the Nation: Spenser, Milton, and England on the Margins by Linda Gregerson; 9. "The DEestin'd Walls / Of Cambalu": Milton, China, and the Ambiguities of the East by Robert Markley; 10. Religious Toleration and Imperial Intolerance by Elizabeth Sauer. III. Consequences: 11. Acts of Kind Service: Milton and the Patriot Literature of Empire by Nicholas von Maltzahn; 12. "Greek & Latin Slaves of the Sword": Rejecting the Imperial Nation in Blake's Milton by Julia M. Wright; 13. Milton and Education by Gauri Viswanathan; 14. The Imperial Temptation by Balachandra Rajan; 15. Afterword: An Ironic Act of Courage by Homi K. Bhabha; notes, notes on contributors, index. Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies series: First Edition, 1999. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. "This exceptionally rich collection of 16 essays by major literary scholars and cultural historians opens new areas of inquiry in Milton studies. While focusing on forms and variations of imperialism and colonialism in the seventeenth century, chiefly as a context in which to analyse Milton's poetry and prose, these essays extend their attention to the present-day concern with postcolonialism and postcolonialist discourse."