The Elizabethan Nation Author:Joel Hurstfield "The author addresses himself primarily to the study not exclusively of a queen and her government in political and economic terms, but to the history of the Elizabethan nation as 'a whole society of diverse people responding to the pressures of new experiences in all aspects of their lives.' — This includes the development of the culture and of ... more »the intercourse with the civilisation of Europe, of religious experiences, of social beliefs and structures, attitudes to war and peace--and everything else. A comprehensive view, that is, in the light of modern scholarship and modern ideas of the unity of history."« less