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The End of the North Atlantic World
The gains from the black death last a lot longer in north europe than in southern europe. In both england and the dutch iyou had a political system which had much more buying from the merchantile and commercial alite compared to southern european states. And ultimately, that made these states more powerful actors. It's this weird thing that in a smaller or liberal england, compared to absolutest france or absolute as spain, was able to extract much higher tax revenues from its population.