The Expansion of Elizabethan England

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'. Elizabet

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THE EXPANSION OF ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND

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THE ENGLAND OF ELIZABETH

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THE EXPANSION OF ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND A. L. Rowse Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford

Foreword by

the Rt Hon. Michael Portillo M.P.

Si oblitusfuero tui Jerusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea, PSALM, cxxxvi

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