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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... never absorbed, the difference of language, of racial characteristics, of the whole outlook and experience of life. Hence the clash and conflict at every point : there was no point of agreement. Resistance was sometimes partial ...
... never absorbed, the difference of language, of racial characteristics, of the whole outlook and experience of life. Hence the clash and conflict at every point : there was no point of agreement. Resistance was sometimes partial ...
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... never an evil countenance of them, but by the contrary were very well treated and reasonably.” (Hospitality was, of course, no less a feature of such a society.) We have a vivid picture of these thieves at work in a letter from Berwick ...
... never an evil countenance of them, but by the contrary were very well treated and reasonably.” (Hospitality was, of course, no less a feature of such a society.) We have a vivid picture of these thieves at work in a letter from Berwick ...
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... never heard of since that time till now.” 4 For sheer unredemption of spirit it would be hard to beat Lionel Grey, the porter of Berwick, who planned the murder of John Ainsley, captain of Norham, for some offence against the Greys : “I ...
... never heard of since that time till now.” 4 For sheer unredemption of spirit it would be hard to beat Lionel Grey, the porter of Berwick, who planned the murder of John Ainsley, captain of Norham, for some offence against the Greys : “I ...
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... never heard preaching before, and were not used to it ; when Gilpin preached against robbing and stealing, an old man of eighty shouted out, “then the deil I give my sall to, but we are all thieves”. They were ; and it was six of one ...
... never heard preaching before, and were not used to it ; when Gilpin preached against robbing and stealing, an old man of eighty shouted out, “then the deil I give my sall to, but we are all thieves”. They were ; and it was six of one ...
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... never risk the Tower of London for the town of Berwick.” He was a sensible man at bottom ; and sense was precisely what his mother, with all her gifts and charms, lacked. To govern the Borders and put these laws into execution the ...
... never risk the Tower of London for the town of Berwick.” He was a sensible man at bottom ; and sense was precisely what his mother, with all her gifts and charms, lacked. To govern the Borders and put these laws into execution the ...
Contenido
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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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