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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... island helped to speed England's response to military emergencies, and our weather more than once assisted in defeating Spanish navies and ambitions. England had been slow to join in the thrilling enlargement of the known world, but ...
... island helped to speed England's response to military emergencies, and our weather more than once assisted in defeating Spanish navies and ambitions. England had been slow to join in the thrilling enlargement of the known world, but ...
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... island, it was most markedly advantageous to the West—particularly the SouthWest—which, from being for so long the back-door, became the front-door. (The most striking illustration is the rise of Plymouth: a first-class history of that ...
... island, it was most markedly advantageous to the West—particularly the SouthWest—which, from being for so long the back-door, became the front-door. (The most striking illustration is the rise of Plymouth: a first-class history of that ...
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... island people. Wherever we look in the world, or in modern history, we come upon evidences of the contributions they have made. Whether it is at sea, in the arts of navigation or maritime warfare from Drake to Nelson and our own time ...
... island people. Wherever we look in the world, or in modern history, we come upon evidences of the contributions they have made. Whether it is at sea, in the arts of navigation or maritime warfare from Drake to Nelson and our own time ...
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... island), with its subsequent developments in atomic energy and in the air ; or in the unceasing proliferation of its genius at once for literature and for science—the experience of the island people has been more and more closely bound ...
... island), with its subsequent developments in atomic energy and in the air ; or in the unceasing proliferation of its genius at once for literature and for science—the experience of the island people has been more and more closely bound ...
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... island of Lewis, planting it with a company of Adventurers, adopting—as a Scottish Nationalist historian charmingly says—“ the method of the English in Ireland ”.” The point is that the methods were everywhere the same. Even the weak ...
... island of Lewis, planting it with a company of Adventurers, adopting—as a Scottish Nationalist historian charmingly says—“ the method of the English in Ireland ”.” The point is that the methods were everywhere the same. Even the weak ...
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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