Levellers - Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Rachel Foxley is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Reading Klappentext Offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Foxley challenges received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalization of parliamentarian thought. Zusammenfassung Offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Foxley challenges received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalization of parliamentarian thought. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Levellers and historians1. Consent and the origins of government 2. The appeal to the people 3. The laws of England and the 'free-born Englishman' 4. Religion, politics and conscience 5. Levellers and the army: England's freedom, soldiers' rights 6. Levellers into republicans?Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Foxley, Foxley Rachel, Foxley Rachel
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2014
• EAN: 9780719096600
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9660-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain; Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; England, European History, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), Civil wars