Sovereignty and possession in the English new world : the legal foundations of empire, 1576-1640 / Ken MacMillan.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2006.

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Sovereignty -- History.

Constitutional history -- Great Britain.

United States -- Politics and government -- History.

1. Sovereignty, empire, and law in a New World context

2. Defining the Elizabethan empire in America

3. Letters patent and the acquest of dominion

4. Defending sovereignty and possession in the New World

5. Mapping the English empire in North America

6. Negotiating the early-Stuart empire in America.

This book offers a major new study of legal imperialism in the context of English methods of settlement and governance in the Americas under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0521870097

9780521870092

xiii, 235 p. : maps ; 24 cm