Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576-1640

Introduction 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 Bibliography Index.