The Expansion of Elizabethan EnglandSpringer, 2003 M04 4 - 450 páginas Elizabethan society is arguably the most successful in English history. The adventurers and merchants (as well as the poets and playwrights) of that age are legendary. The subject of this classic study by A.L. Rowse is that society's 'expansion'. Elizabethan society expanded both physically (first into Cornwall, then Ireland, then across the oceans to first contact with Russian, the Canadian North and then the opening up of trade with India and the Far East) and in terms of ideas and influence on international affairs. Rowse argues that in the Elizabethan age we see the beginning of England's huge impact upon the world. |
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... Spain, we were less drained by foreign expeditions. Our people were freer to think, innovate and improvise. The younger sons of great families were no longer entombed in monasteries, and their boisterous energy found other outlets. The ...
... Spain, we were less drained by foreign expeditions. Our people were freer to think, innovate and improvise. The younger sons of great families were no longer entombed in monasteries, and their boisterous energy found other outlets. The ...
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... Spain – into assuming a wide-ranging maritime role. The Channel, then as now, was Europe's busiest sea-lane. Little wonder that Elizabeth formulated a dual naval doctrine: England demanded freedom of the world's oceans, and asserted ...
... Spain – into assuming a wide-ranging maritime role. The Channel, then as now, was Europe's busiest sea-lane. Little wonder that Elizabeth formulated a dual naval doctrine: England demanded freedom of the world's oceans, and asserted ...
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... Spain, which has left a mark second only in importance to the English upon the face of the world. We followed, after an interval, in their footsteps and across them. But first comes a more gründlich phase of expansion at home. Here also ...
... Spain, which has left a mark second only in importance to the English upon the face of the world. We followed, after an interval, in their footsteps and across them. But first comes a more gründlich phase of expansion at home. Here also ...
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... Spain, she became involved in the necessity to subdue and conquer Ireland ; and by the time the Queen died, the sickening, the imperative, process was complete. Out of that very process of subjugation, the foundations of a rew Ireland ...
... Spain, she became involved in the necessity to subdue and conquer Ireland ; and by the time the Queen died, the sickening, the imperative, process was complete. Out of that very process of subjugation, the foundations of a rew Ireland ...
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... Spain, the young king James—reaching maturity and consolidating his power intelligently among difficulties that overwhelmed his mother—falls into line and allies himself with England. Nothing could have been more reassuring than his ...
... Spain, the young king James—reaching maturity and consolidating his power intelligently among difficulties that overwhelmed his mother—falls into line and allies himself with England. Nothing could have been more reassuring than his ...
Contenido
1 | |
WALES | 45 |
A CELTIC SOCIETY IN DECLINE | 90 |
COLONISATION AND CONQUEST | 126 |
V OCEANIC VOYAGES | 158 |
VI AMERICAN COLONISATION | 206 |
VII THE SEASTRUGGLE WITH SPAIN | 238 |
VIII THE ARMADA AND AFTER | 266 |
MILITARY ORGANISATION | 327 |
X INTERVENTION IN THE NETHERLANDS | 374 |
XI THE IRISH WAR | 415 |
INDEX | 439 |
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