The Expansion of Elizabethan EnglandSpringer, 04.04.2003 - 450 Seiten 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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... 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; whether it is in voyages of ...
... 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; whether it is in voyages of ...
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... looks out little changed upon the sandy, willowfringed and many-islanded Loire—brought it about. * All her life the little Duchess fought against the absorption of her duchy into the kingdom of France, to preserve its independent entity ...
... looks out little changed upon the sandy, willowfringed and many-islanded Loire—brought it about. * All her life the little Duchess fought against the absorption of her duchy into the kingdom of France, to preserve its independent entity ...
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... looks at Penrith today with a seeing eye, it bespeaks those days and dangers : in the centre, a wide open space to hold all the cattle, with narrow defensible lanes leading to it from the town-gates. Once the hue-and-cry was up—and ...
... looks at Penrith today with a seeing eye, it bespeaks those days and dangers : in the centre, a wide open space to hold all the cattle, with narrow defensible lanes leading to it from the town-gates. Once the hue-and-cry was up—and ...
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... looks like their mother. Further bequests are made to George and Peter Forster, the base-begotten sons of his brother Roland. This will is more eloquent than pages of social disquisition : it looks as if, in the Forster family, a good ...
... looks like their mother. Further bequests are made to George and Peter Forster, the base-begotten sons of his brother Roland. This will is more eloquent than pages of social disquisition : it looks as if, in the Forster family, a good ...
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... looks to the high fells—Cold Fell, Tyndale Fells—his broad acres. A heron rises up from the stream winging its way towards those WaSteS. The most remarkable monument of all are the intact Elizabethan fortifications of Berwick: they must ...
... looks to the high fells—Cold Fell, Tyndale Fells—his broad acres. A heron rises up from the stream winging its way towards those WaSteS. The most remarkable monument of all are the intact Elizabethan fortifications of Berwick: they must ...
Inhalt
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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