Introduction / Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer
Dominion as domesticity: Milton's imperial god and the experience of history / Janel Mueller
The "lordly eye": Milton and the strategic geography of empire / Bruce McLeod
Imperial dialect: Milton and conquered peoples / Sharon Achinstein
Milton and the new world: custom, relativism, and the discipline of shame / Paul Stevens
Ecology and empire / Diane McColley
Cromwell, Milton, and the Western design / Robert Thomas Fallon
Milton and "the complication of interests" in early modern Ireland / Willy Maley
Colonials write the nation: Spenser, Milton, and England on the margins / Linda Gregerson
"The destin'd walls /Of Cambalu": Milton, China, and the ambiguities of the East / Robert Markley
Religious toleration and imperial intolerance / Elizabeth Sauer
Acts of kind service: Milton and the patriot literature of empire / Nicholas von Maltzahn
"Greek & Latin slaves of the sword": rejecting the imperial nation in Blake's Milton / Julia M. Wright
Milton and education / Gauri Viswanathan
The imperial temptation / Balachandra Rajan
Afterword : an ironic act of courage / Homi K. Bhabha.