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The Levellers

2016-05-16 History
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Release : 2016-05-16
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Book Synopsis The Levellers by : Rachel Foxley

Download or read book The Levellers written by Rachel Foxley. This book was released on 2016-05-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty years, offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Challenging received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalisation of parliamentarian thought, Foxley shows that the Levellers’ originality lay in their subtle and unexpected combination of different strands within parliamentarianism. The book takes full account of recent scholarship, and contributes to historical debates on the development of radical and republican politics in the civil war period, the nature of tolerationist thought, the significance of the Leveller movement and the extent of the Levellers’ influence in the ranks of the New Model Army.

The Leveller Revolution

2017-11-14 History
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Release : 2017-11-14
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Book Synopsis The Leveller Revolution by : John Rees

Download or read book The Leveller Revolution written by John Rees. This book was released on 2017-11-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings to life the men—including John Lilburne, Richard Overton and Thomas Rainsborough—and women who ensured victory and became an inspiration to republicans of many nations. From the raucous streets of London and the clattering printers’ workshops that stoked the uprising, to the rank and file of the New Model Army and the furious Putney debates where the Levellers argued with Oliver Cromwell for the future of English democracy, this story reasserts the revolutionary nature of the 1642–51 wars and the role of ordinary people in this pivotal moment in history. In particular Rees places the Levellers at the centre of the debates of 1647 when the nation was gripped by the question of what to do with the defeated Charles I. Without the Levellers and Agitators’ fortitude and well-organised opposition history may have avoided the regicide and missed its revolutionary moment. The legacy of the Levellers can be seen in the modern struggles for freedom and democracy across the world.

The English Levellers

1998-06-11 History
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Release : 1998-06-11
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Book Synopsis The English Levellers by : Andrew Sharp

Download or read book The English Levellers written by Andrew Sharp. This book was released on 1998-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Levellers were a crucial component of a radically democratic movement during the civil wars in seventeenth-century England. This was to be democratic at a time when the very idea of democracy conjured up nothing good; with its suggestion of anarchy and the 'levelling' of distinctions in rank and of property, even the holding of women in common. This collection of thirteen fully annotated Leveller writings, including their famous Agreements of the People, is important as a contribution not only to the understanding of the English civil wars, but also of democratic theory. The editor's introduction sets the Leveller ideas in their context and, together with a chronology, short biographies of the leading figures and a guide to further reading, will be of interest to students of the English civil wars, the history of political thought and the history of democratic ideas.

The Putney Debates

2018-11-20 History
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Release : 2018-11-20
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Book Synopsis The Putney Debates by : The Levellers

Download or read book The Putney Debates written by The Levellers. This book was released on 2018-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration. This came to a head with the famous debates between the Levellers and Cromwell at St Mary's church in Putney, London. Renowned human-rights lawyer and author Geoffrey Robertson argues for the relevance of the Levellers' stand today, showing how they were the first Western radical democrats.

The Levellers and the English Revolution

1961 History
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Release : 1961
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Book Synopsis The Levellers and the English Revolution by : Henry Noel Brailsford

Download or read book The Levellers and the English Revolution written by Henry Noel Brailsford. This book was released on 1961. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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