Format:
1 Online-Ressource (269 p)
ISBN:
9781526112095
Series Statement:
Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP
Content:
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 accoun
Content:
The Levellers: Radical political thought in the English Revolution -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on conventions -- Introduction: Levellers and historians -- Chapter 1: Consent and the origins of government -- Chapter 2: The appeal to the people -- Chapter 3: The laws of England and the 'free-born Englishman' -- Chapter 4: Religion, politics, and conscience -- Chapter 5: Levellers and the army: England's freedom, soldiers' rights -- Chapter 6: Levellers into republicans? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781526112095
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780719089367
Additional Edition:
Print version Foxley, Rachel The Levellers : Radical political thought in the English Revolution Oxford : Manchester University Press,c2016
Language:
English
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