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Oracles of empire: poetry, politics, and commerce in British America, 1690-1750

Shields, David S.

Year: 1990.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press.

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Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Issue of Empire in the Literary Self-Understanding of British Americans

1. The British Empire and the Poetry of Commerce

1. The Literary Topology of Mercantilism

2. The Tide of Empire

3. The Material Redeemers

4. Staples

2. The Paper Wars Over the Prerogative

5. The Problem of Prerogative

6. The Paper Wars in Massachusetts

7. The Spread of Boston Principles

3. The Rhetoric of Imperial Animosity

8. Empire of Evil

9. Gallic Perfidy

10. The Tenuousness of Imperial Identity

Notes

Bibliography of Primary Spources

Index

reviews

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Title:

Oracles of empire : poetry, politics, and commerce in British America, 1690-1750 David S. Shields.

Author:

Shields, David S

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Oracles of empire : poetry, politics, and commerce in British America, 1690-1750 David S. Shields.
Shields, David S
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

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Subject Headings:

• American poetry -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
• Imperialism in literature
• Commerce in literature
• Colonies in literature
• Political poetry, American -- History and criticism
• United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century

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