Elizabethan society is arguably the most successful in English history. The adventurers and merchants 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 and in terms of ideas and influences on international affairs. Rowse argues that in the Elizabethan age we see the beginning of England's huge impact upon the world.
Elizabethan society is arguably the most successful in English history. The adventurers and merchants 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 and in terms of ideas and influences on international affairs. Rowse argues that in the Elizabethan age we see the beginning of England's huge impact upon the world.