The Expansion of Elizabethan England

A.L. Rowse

‘One of the major works of historical literature to appear in our time’
The New Statesman

‘Mr. Rowse’s second volume of his The Elizabethan Age brilliantly fulfils the high promise of its predecessor. For the first time the whole story has been given a unity of treatment and told with verve, imagination and originality’ – The Economist

‘This brilliant book: here is insight as well as realism; Celtic imagination combined with a ruthless sense of fact. The power to marshal the facts, to keep the reader alert, which makes Dr. Rowse an outstanding narrative historian in a time much dominated by technicians, is combined with a rare and uninhibited psychological insight. Dr. Rowse has created a masterpiece on a great subject’ -Times Literary Supplement

‘He is our greatest living historian’ – Sir Arthur Bryant

Cover Picture: Vroom’s painting of trading in the East. – (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)