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I forgot to mention: Enclosure was I think the basis for the (relatively new) idea of individual land ownership. Am I wrong?

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That's one of the things they say. I need to find a good historical treatment.

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I'll be getting this one, particularly for the hypothesis that ship organization was the basis for factories (not entirely new, since some ships were actually referred to as "factories" in whaling). You might enjoy "The Enemy of All Mankind" (in case you haven't already read it), which states a similar hypothesis-- that piracy was the basis for the modern stockholder corporation. It's also a rip roaring narrative about one of the first acts of piracy by a "proletariat" (mutiny, instead of royal chartered "Privateers") at the end of the 17th century.

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