The Levellers by Rachel Foxley
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.-
Black Tom
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Courtship and constraint
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The origins of the Scottish Reformation
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The spoken word
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The Cooke sisters
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Leicester and the Court
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Londinopolis
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A Religion of the Word
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Laudian and Royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England
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Brave community
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The politics of the public sphere in early modern England
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Doubtful and Dangerous
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Communities in Early Modern England
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Political passions
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Republican learning
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Aspects of English Protestantism C.1530–1700
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Charitable Hatred
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‘No historie so meete’
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The social world of early modern Westminster
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The face of the city
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Black Bartholomew's Day
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Reformed identity and conformity in England, 1559–1714
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Being Catholic in post-Reformation England
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Parliament and politics in revolutionary Britain and Ireland, 1640–60
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English Sermon Revised
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The 1630s
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Reformation without End
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Gentry Culture and the Politics of Religion
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Britain's Lost Revolution?
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This England
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Literature and Politics in the English Reformation
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The Crisis of British Protestantism
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Chaplains in Early Modern England
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Revolutionising Politics
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The Gentlewoman's Remembrance
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News and rumour in Jacobean England
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Westminster 1640–60
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Reading and Politics in Early Modern England
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The Later Stuart Church, 1660–1714
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Reading Ireland
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Loyalty, Memory and Public Opinion in England, 1658–1727
..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.
This is an excellent book. Foxley’s work will be required reading for those who wish to understand the importance, and radical influence, of Leveller thought and action during the English Civil Wars.
Rachel Foxley is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Reading
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| ISBN 13 | 9780719096600 |
| ISBN 10 | 071909660X |
| Title | The Levellers |
| Author | Rachel Foxley |
| Series | Politics Culture And Society In Early Modern Britain |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2014-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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