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Record Nr.

UNINA9910478926503321

Autore

Foxley Rachel

Titolo

The Levellers [[electronic resource] ] : Radical political thought in the English Revolution

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Manchester University Press, 2016

ISBN

1-5261-1209-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP

Altri autori (Persone)

LakePeter

MiltonAnthony

PeaceyJason

GajdaAlexandra

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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