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Author : G. E. Aylmer
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007497998
Author : Henry Noel Brailsford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005091171
Author : John Rees
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784783891
The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings to life the men—including John Lilburne, Richard Overton and Thomas Rainsborough—and women who ensured victory and became an inspiration to republicans of many nations. From the raucous streets of London and the clattering printers’ workshops that stoked the uprising, to the rank and file of the New Model Army and the furious Putney debates where the Levellers argued with Oliver Cromwell for the future of English democracy, this story reasserts the revolutionary nature of the 1642–51 wars and the role of ordinary people in this pivotal moment in history. In particular Rees places the Levellers at the centre of the debates of 1647 when the nation was gripped by the question of what to do with the defeated Charles I. Without the Levellers and Agitators’ fortitude and well-organised opposition history may have avoided the regicide and missed its revolutionary moment. The legacy of the Levellers can be seen in the modern struggles for freedom and democracy across the world.
Author : Rachel Foxley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526112088
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.
Author : Gary S. De Krey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349953301
The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-9 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People. Following the Levellers, Volume Two examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne, John Wildman, and Richard Overton, and their followers. Far from ending in the 1649 troop revolts, the Leveller impact continued in the Interregnum climacterics of 1653 and 1659-60, times of acute political and religious unsettlement. Indeed, Leveller ideas resurfaced in Restoration political and religious crises in 1678-83 and again in 1687-8 and flourished in populations that once followed the Levellers. Analysis of London, army, and county Levellers reveals connections to subsequent outbursts of unrest. Sectarian communities in London’s peripheral neighbourhoods and nearby counties sustained the Leveller ethos, and ordinary people like those who followed the Levellers remained active in petitioning and protest about political and religious liberties through the Glorious Revolution.
Author : Michael Braddick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192524768
The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, was shot through the arm, and nearly lost an eye in a pike accident. In the course of all this, he fought important legal battles for the rights to remain silent, to open trial, and to trial by his peers. He was twice acquitted by juries in very public trials, but nonetheless spent the bulk of his adult life in prison or exile. He is best known, however, as the most prominent of the Levellers, who campaigned for a government based on popular sovereignty two centuries before the advent of mass representative democracies in Europe. Michael Braddick explores the extraordinary and dramatic life of 'Freeborn John': how his experience of political activism sharpened and clarified his ideas, leading him to articulate bracingly radical views; and the changes in English society that made such a career possible. Without land, established profession, or public office, successive governments found him sufficiently alarming to be worth imprisoning, sending into exile, and putting on trial for his life. Above all, through his story, we can explore the life not just of John Lilburne, but of revolutionary England itself — and of ideas fundamental to the radical, democratic, libertarian, and constitutional traditions, both in Britain and the USA.
Author : Gary S. De Krey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137268433
This book reinterprets the Leveller authorships of John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn, and foregrounds the role of ordinary people in petitioning and protest during an era of civil war and revolution. The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-49 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People. Their following was not a ‘movement’ but largely a political response of the sects that had emerged in London’s rapidly growing peripheral neighbourhoods and in other localities in the 1640s. This study argues that the Levellers did not emerge as a separate political faction before October 1647, that they did not succeed in establishing extensive political organisation, and that the troop revolt of spring 1649 was not really a Leveller phenomenon. Addressing the contested interpretations of the Levellers throughout, this book also introduces Leveller history to non-specialist readers.
Author : Andrew Sharp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521625114
Collection of thirteen Leveller writings for students of the English civil wars and the history of political thought.
Author : Henry Holorenshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033711073
Author : M. A. Barg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015022001328
Author : Geoff Kennedy
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739123742
"This book situates the development of radical English political thought within the context of the specific nature of agrarian capitalism and the struggles that ensued around the nature of the state during the revolutionary decade of the 1640s. In the context of the emerging conceptions of the state and property - with attendant notions of accumulation, labor, and the common good - groups such as Levellers and Diggers developed distinctive forms of radical political thought not because they were progressive, forward thinkers, but because they were the most significant challengers of the newly constituted forms of political and economic power." "Drawing on recent reexaminations of the nature of agrarian capitalism and modernity in the early modern period, Geoff Kennedy argues that any interpretation of the political theory of this period must relate to the changing nature of social property relations and state power. The radical nature of early modern English political thought is therefore cast-in terms of its oppositional relationship to these novel forms of property and state power, rather than being conceived of as a formal break from discursive conventions."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John Rees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1138926515
Thie edited book assesses the legacy of Lilburne and the Levellers 400 years after his birth and features contributions by leading historians of the period as well as experts in law.
Author : Blair Worden
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297857594
A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins - the war between King and Parliament, the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's rule and the Restoration - while aiming to reveal something more elusive: the motivations of contemporaries on both sides and the concerns of later generations.
Author : Elliot Vernon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137291707
The Agreements of the People were a series of written constitutions proposed variously by Levellers, soldiers and citizens for the settlement of the nation at the height of the English Revolution. The essays in this book explore the various Agreements in the context of the constitutional crisis that engulfed England in the late 1640s and 1650s.
Author : Stephen Taylor,Grant Tapsell
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838180
New insights into the nature of the seventeenth-century English revolution - one of the most contested issues in early modern British history.