Books by R. B. Wernham

Elizabethan foreign policy was very much the policy of Queen Elizabeth l herself. It was not foreplanned, envisaged whole in advance. It was built up out of her responses to questions and problems posed by her relations with neighboring and, in the case of France and Spain, far more powerful countries.

This is an examination of the effect that the defeat of the Armada had on England's standing in international affairs.