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Oracles of empire: poetry, politics, and commerce in British America, 1690-1750
David S. Shields
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Frontmatter (page N/A)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Introduction: The Issue of Empire in the Literary Self-Understanding of British Americans (page 1)
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1. The British Empire and the Poetry of Commerce (page 11)
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1. The Literary Topology of Mercantilism (page 13)
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2. The Tide of Empire (page 21)
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3. The Material Redeemers (page 36)
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4. Staples (page 56)
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2. The Paper Wars Over the Prerogative (page 93)
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5. The Problem of Prerogative (page 95)
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6. The Paper Wars in Massachusetts (page 103)
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7. The Spread of Boston Principles (page 138)
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3. The Rhetoric of Imperial Animosity (page 173)
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8. Empire of Evil (page 175)
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9. Gallic Perfidy (page 195)
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10. The Tenuousness of Imperial Identity (page 221)
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Notes (page 229)
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Bibliography of Primary Spources (page 259)
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Index (page 283)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AHR | 97.1 (Feb. 1992): 276 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199202%2997%3A1%3C276%3AOOEPPA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q |
WMQ | 3.49.1 (Jan. 1992): 151-153 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28199201%293%3A49%3A1%3C151%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H |
AL | 63.3 (Sep. 1991): 540-541 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9831%28199109%2963%3A3%3C540%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I |
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Published: 1990
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
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