Expansion of Elizabethan England

A.L. ROWSE was Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy. He was general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and 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.

• Foreword; Michael Portillo The Borderlands: The Scottish Borders and Cornwall The Borderlands: Wales Ireland: A Celtic Society in Decline Ireland: Colonisation and Conquest Oceanic Voyages American Colonisation The Sea-Struggle with Spain The Armada and After War on Land: Military Organisation Intervention in the Netherlands The Irish War

'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