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The Expansion of Elizabethan England

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  • © 1955

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  1. A. L. Rowse

    1. Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Borderlands: the Scottish Borders and Cornwall

    • A. L. Rowse
    Pages 1-44

  3. The Borderlands: Wales

    • A. L. Rowse
    Pages 45-89

  4. Ireland: a Celtic Society in Decline

    • A. L. Rowse
    Pages 90-125

  5. Ireland: Colonisation and Conquest

    • A. L. Rowse
    Pages 126-157

  6. Oceanic Voyages

    • A. L. Rowse
    Pages 158-205

  7. American Colonisation

    • A. L. Rowse
    Pages 206-237

  8. The Sea-Struggle with Spain

    • A. L. Rowse
    Pages 238-265

  9. The Armada and After

    • A. L. Rowse
    Pages 266-326

  10. War on Land: Military Organisation

    • A. L. Rowse
    Pages 327-373

  11. Intervention in the Netherlands

    • A. L. Rowse
    Pages 374-414

  12. The Irish War

    • A. L. Rowse
    Pages 415-438

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 439-450
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'Dr Rowse has created a masterpiece on a great subject.' - The Times Literary Supplement

'One of the major works of historical literature to appear in our time.' - The New Statesman

'. . . Rowse's second volume of his The Elizabethan Age brilliantly fulfils the high promise of its predecessor.' - The Economist

Authors and Affiliations

  • Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, UK

    A. L. Rowse

About the author

A.L. ROWSE was Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy. He wrote over 50 books including Tudor Cornwall, The Spirit of English History, Bosworth Field and the War of the Rose, Cornishman at Oxford and Homosexuals in History as well as a biography of Shakespeare.

MICHAEL PORTILLO is Member of Parliament for Kensington and Chelsea and a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Employment and Secretary of State for Defence.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Expansion of Elizabethan England

  • Authors: A. L. Rowse

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597136

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1955

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0813-1Published: 04 April 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59713-6Published: 04 April 2003

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 450

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Cultural History

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