Anglos distinctively individualist even by the time of the Black Death: http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/TEXTS/Origins_HI.pdf …
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... Moving on (in time): "German, Dutch, French and Italian visitors ... remarked on the strangeness of England. ..." ...
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... "... The independence, individuality and freedom of the English was also discussed."
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... "... F.W Maitalnd, Sir Henry Maine and Marc Bloch ... constantly stress the differences ..."
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... "... between the legal, economic and social structures in medieval England and that present elsewhere." ...
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... "The central difference which all of them stress is that only in England ..." ...
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... "... was the concept of indivisible, individually held, private property present by the thirteenth century."
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And who did that? Szabo has an essay where he gives away the Jouvenel dynamic at play here. Not *waves hands* "magic."
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English exceptionalism is the fact. The proposed causal mechanism is an explanation. It doesn't turn Anglos into Russians.
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