The Levellers : radical political thought in the English Revolution / / Rachel Foxley
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013 |
| New York, New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [date of distribution not identified] | |
| 2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 942.062 |
| Soggetto topico: | Levellers |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 |
| Soggetto non controllato: | English Civil War |
| English revolution | |
| Levellers | |
| Lilburne, John | |
| New Model Army | |
| Overton, Richard | |
| Walwyn, William | |
| radicalism | |
| republicanism | |
| toleration | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Levellers |
| ISBN: | 1-5261-1208-6 |
| 1-5261-1209-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910806256103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.