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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... SOCIETY IN DEC LINE IRE LAND: COLONIS ATION AND CONQUEST OCEANIC VOYAGES AMERICAN COLONIS ATION THE SEA-STRUGGLE WITH SPAIN THE ARMADA AND AFTER WAR ON LAND: MILITARY ORGANISATION INTERVENTION IN THE NETHERLANDS THE IRISH WAR INDEX PAGE ...
... SOCIETY IN DEC LINE IRE LAND: COLONIS ATION AND CONQUEST OCEANIC VOYAGES AMERICAN COLONIS ATION THE SEA-STRUGGLE WITH SPAIN THE ARMADA AND AFTER WAR ON LAND: MILITARY ORGANISATION INTERVENTION IN THE NETHERLANDS THE IRISH WAR INDEX PAGE ...
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... historical understanding since Rowse, perhaps in his day we really could see Elizabethan England more clearly. MICHAEL PORTILLO HOUSE OF COMMONS This page intentionally left blank PREFACE society in the Elizabethan Foreword.
... historical understanding since Rowse, perhaps in his day we really could see Elizabethan England more clearly. MICHAEL PORTILLO HOUSE OF COMMONS This page intentionally left blank PREFACE society in the Elizabethan Foreword.
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A. Rowse, M. Portillo. This page intentionally left blank PREFACE society in the Elizabethan age, from the point of.
A. Rowse, M. Portillo. This page intentionally left blank PREFACE society in the Elizabethan age, from the point of.
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A. Rowse, M. Portillo. PREFACE society in the Elizabethan age, from the point of view of structure and government ... societies at home—Cornwall, Wales, the Borders, with the sweep of a sickle on the map: into Ireland, where the process ...
A. Rowse, M. Portillo. PREFACE society in the Elizabethan age, from the point of view of structure and government ... societies at home—Cornwall, Wales, the Borders, with the sweep of a sickle on the map: into Ireland, where the process ...
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... Society), in sending me rare off-prints and answering troublesome queries. Professor Richard Pares, then of Edinburgh, gave me guidance on an important point; I deeply appreciate the stimulus of his conversation on his return to All ...
... Society), in sending me rare off-prints and answering troublesome queries. Professor Richard Pares, then of Edinburgh, gave me guidance on an important point; I deeply appreciate the stimulus of his conversation on his return to All ...
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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