What on earth does "nowhere else" refer to?

[notletrest]

"...men of England. Nowhere else..."
I asked in the next sentence, "nowhere else" refers to England or in England?
Thanks a lot!

 

[Rover_KE]

We could do with two complete sentences - not two fragments.

 

[notletrest]

We could do with two complete sentences - not two fragments.

Let me complete the two sentences:
They respected men of England. Nowhere else was importance attached to knowledge.
Thanks!

 

[BobK]

'Nowhere else' = 'In no other place' in that context. But it's a pretty strange sentence. Are you sure you haven't omitted the word 'such'?

b

 

[notletrest]

'Nowhere else' = 'In no other place' in that context. But it's a pretty strange sentence. Are you sure you haven't omitted the word 'such'?

b

The two sentences are made by myself, imitating other’s intentionally. I wonder why you felt pretty strange because of without “such”. ​

Now I change the second one into “Nowhere else was so great.” Here, nowhere must be “no other place but “. If I am right, I see what you are driving at.
thaks!​

 

[Barb_D]

Because with some change to the sentence, it says that only in England was knowledge important and everywhere else in the world it's unimportant, which is clearly a false statement.