Reply To: Stateless societies in the West?

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Jason Jewell
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Early medieval Ireland and Iceland are the places most often mentioned in this context because there’s no centralized government. Everything was clan- and tribe-based. These would not have been societies in which individual liberty was necessarily prized, though. David Friedman has written about medieval Iceland: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Iceland/Iceland.html