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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 THE WIDER WORLD -- The Agricultural Base -- Material Progress in the Wider World -- Aborted Growth -- Conclusion -- 3 MEDIEVAL EUROPE -- The Antecedents -- Stability, Growth, and Catastrophe -- Renewed Growth -- Toward Modernity -- Conclusion -- 4 OVERSEAS EXPANSION AND DECLINE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN -- Medieval Iberia -- Expansion -- Decline in the Mediterranean -- Conclusion -- 5 EUROPE IN TRANSITION: CAPITALISM -- Before the Dutch Golden Age -- The Golden Age -- England in Transition -- The Struggle for Control of England -- 6 PERIPHERIES IN THE WORLD ECONOMY -- Eastern Europe -- The Plantation Economies -- Fueling the Plantation Economy -- Conclusion -- 7 DEPENDENCIES IN THE WORLD ECONOMY -- Ireland -- Transition in Spanish America -- The North American Mainland -- Conclusion -- 8 THE COLONIAL POWERS AND THE WORLD ECONOMY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- England and World Trade -- Colonial Europe Tries to Narrow the Gap -- Rivalry -- Conclusion -- 9 REVOLUTION -- Challenging the Old Order -- The Industrial Revolution in Britain -- Conclusion -- 10 RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT -- Retrospect -- Prospect -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Author -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- BOWERS V. HARDWICK in the Renaissance -- Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England -- The (In ) Significance of "Lesbian" Desire in Early Modern England -- Fraudomy.· Reading Sexuality and Politics in Burchiello -- Practicing queer philology with Marguerite de Navarre: nationalism and the castigation of desire -- Erasmus's Tigress : the language of Friendship, pleasure and the renaissance letter -- John Bale and Early Tudor sodomy discourse -- "To serve the Queere": Nicholas Udall, master of revels -- Into other arms: Amoret's evasion -- Romeo and Juliet's Open Rs -- The epistemology of expurgation: bacon and the masculine birth of time -- Pleasure and devotion: the body of Jesus and seventeenth-century religious lyric -- My two dads: collaboration and the reproduction of Beaumont and Fletcher -- Fighting women and loving men: Dryden's representation of Shakespeare in all for love -- New English Sodom -- Afterword -- Notes on contributors -- Index