02459nam 22004213u 450 991047892650332120210111221017.01-5261-1209-4(CKB)3710000000853524(EBL)4706715(MiAaPQ)EBC4706715(EXLCZ)99371000000085352420161010d2016|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||The Levellers[electronic resource] Radical political thought in the English RevolutionOxford Manchester University Press20161 online resource (269 p.)Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUPDescription based upon print version of record.0-7190-9660-X 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; IndexThe 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 accounPolitics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUPElectronic books.Foxley Rachel1042705Lake Peter400326Milton Anthony1027989Peacey Jason883611Gajda Alexandra1042706AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910478926503321The Levellers2467138UNINA$43.7506/22/2018Hist