They offered an outlet for the ambitions of land-hungry knights and noblemen. |
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Market historians tend to view early American farmers as acquisitive, money-making, land-hungry, entrepreneurial go-getters. |
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Land-hungry settlers viewed the royal government as an obstacle to their ambitions. |
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For land-hungry crofters and cottars these estates became potent symbols of land deliberately left underdeveloped and kept out of circulation. |
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