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Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World
https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Freedom-English-Speaking-Peoples-Modern/dp/0062231731
The whole thing is just one big piece of unapologetic nostalgia for the days of imperial Britain
I'm reading 'Inventing Freedom' by Daniel Hannan and I get a different impression. Maybe there are hairs to split, but, he says that Anglo-Saxons were different from all other Europeans, in at least choosing their kings (kingship not being automatically hereditary), their councils having power, that they didn't do serfdom. He specifically says that, contra Marx, all /other/ European countries went through the serfdom phase, but England never did. His evidence - that there are records of them (freemen, perhaps) buying and selling land freely. I don't know how to reconcile the views. That there /were/ freemen, perhaps?