dc.contributor.author | Armitage, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-11-05T16:14:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Armitage, David. 2004. The Elizabethan idea of empire. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Sixth Series) 14: 269-277. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0080-4401 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1474-0648 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3382856 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper argues that the English idea of empire in the reign of Elizabeth I was derivative, belated and incoherent. Its sources were classical and continental rather than indigenous. It arose more than a century after the Scottish monarchy had elaborated its own conception of empire. Moreover, it expressed a sense of backwardness, isolation and anxiety that mirrored the English failure to establish any permanent settlements in the Atlantic world. As a result, any balance sheet of empire drawn up on Elizabeth's death in 1603 would have valued prospects in the Mediterranean and the East Indies more highly than possibilities in the Americas. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | History | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S008044010400012X | en_US |
dash.license | LAA | |
dc.title | The Elizabethan Idea of Empire | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.description.version | Version of Record | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | en_US |
dash.depositing.author | Armitage, David | |
dc.date.available | 2009-11-05T16:14:48Z | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S008044010400012X | * |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Armitage, David | |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-0538-7078 | |