That Disturbing Devil
Ferdinand Mount: Land Ownership, 8 May 2014
Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership
by Andro Linklater.
Bloomsbury, 482 pp., £20, January 2014,978 1 4088 1574 8 Show More
by Andro Linklater.
Bloomsbury, 482 pp., £20, January 2014,
“... into the New World. In the royal charter that Queen Elizabeth conferred on Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583, she granted him full power over the soil of ‘those large and ample countreys [that] extended Northward from the cape of Florida … to dispose thereof, of every part thereof in fee simple or otherwise, according to the order of the laws of ... ”