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Autore |
Foxley Rachel |
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Titolo |
The Levellers : radical political thought in the English Revolution / / Rachel Foxley |
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Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013 |
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New York, New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [date of distribution not identified] |
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2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-5261-1208-6 |
1-5261-1209-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Collana |
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Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain |
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Soggetti |
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Levellers |
Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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