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Piscatorial politics revisited: The language of economic debate and the evolution of fishing policy in Elizabethan England (1).

Albion,  March, 2003  by Sgroi, R.C.L.

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The historiography of Tudor economic legislation has been preoccupied with two questions: firstly whether any consistent economic planning, or simply expedient reactions to various problems, can be discerned in Elizabethan policy; and secondly whether and to what extent policy was imposed "from above" by William Cecil and the privy council, or influenced "from below" by local and factional lobbying.

Since the 1980s the research of Geoffrey Elton and his successors has extended our understanding of Tudor parliaments; yet the standard accounts of Elizabethan ...

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