The Levellers : radical political thought in the English Revolution /

The Levellers : radical political thought in the English Revolution /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Foxley, Rachel.
Imprint:Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2013.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 256 pages .)
Language:English
Series:Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
Subject:
Levellers.
Levellers.
Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.
Great Britain.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13539168
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ISBN:178170581X
9781781705810
9781526112095
1526112094
9780719089367
0719089360
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary: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 account of recent scholarship, and contributes to historical debates on the development of radical and republican politics in the civil war period, the nature of tolerationist thought, the significance of the Leveller movement and the extent of the Levellers' influence in the ranks of the New Model Army -- Publisher's website.
Other form:Print version: 9780719089367 0719089360

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