The Expansion of Elizabethan EnglandSpringer, 4 apr. 2003 - 450 sidor 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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... head, and left the rest of his company to cut him all in pieces.” No doubt Boulton had done something. 1. Cf. R. Welford, History of Newcastle and Gateshead, III. 7 The Borderlands : The Scottish Borders and Cornwall.
... head, and left the rest of his company to cut him all in pieces.” No doubt Boulton had done something. 1. Cf. R. Welford, History of Newcastle and Gateshead, III. 7 The Borderlands : The Scottish Borders and Cornwall.
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... rest. Perhaps it is a tribute to ideal virtue that their bastardy is specified : out in the wilds no-one bothered. Trollopes, Delavals, Lilburnes, Middletons, Rokebys—all mention their progeny on both sides of the blanket.* Thomas ...
... rest. Perhaps it is a tribute to ideal virtue that their bastardy is specified : out in the wilds no-one bothered. Trollopes, Delavals, Lilburnes, Middletons, Rokebys—all mention their progeny on both sides of the blanket.* Thomas ...
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... rest of them. The end of the Border was the end of the old order and a great blow to such people : they could not believe that the world had changed. On his accession James directed a special proclamation to the Borders against those ...
... rest of them. The end of the Border was the end of the old order and a great blow to such people : they could not believe that the world had changed. On his accession James directed a special proclamation to the Borders against those ...
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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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