Overview

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. -- .

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Author:   Rachel Foxley ,  Peter Lake ,  Anthony Milton ,  Jason Peacey
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780719089367

ISBN 10:   0719089360
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   31 May 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Levellers and historians 1. 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 -- .

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...the book should be of concern to all history students both of a left or right persuasion. Foxley's book should be seen as an important contribution to placing the Levellers in their proper revolutionary context. -- Keith Livesey. keith-perspective.blogspot.co.uk

Author Information

Rachel Foxley is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Reading -- .

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