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The English Levellers (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.5312
EAN: 9780521625111
ISBN: 0521625114
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 262
Publication Date: June 27, 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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Editorial Review:
The levellers were a crucial component of a radically democratic movement that came together during the English civil wars. Much leveller activity occurred in print and their texts now form an important part of the liberal and social democratic canon. This edition contains an introduction by the editor that sets the leveller ideas in their context and, together with a chronology and short biographies of the leading figures, is essential reading for students of the English civil wars and the history of political thought.
The levellers were a crucial component of a radically democratic movement which came together during the English civil wars. Much leveller activity occurred in print and their texts now form an important part of the liberal and social democratic canon. This edition contains an introduction by the editor which sets the leveller ideas in their context and, together with a chronology and short biographies of the leading figures, is essential reading for students of the English civil wars and the history of political thought.
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Rating: - Levellers
This anthology of the standard Leveller texts is definitive. The writings themselves are somewhat wordy but often eloquent, as is typical for writing of this period. The real reason to read this is for its inspiring prefiguring of modern democratic theory: this is a forgotten classic that speaks with poignant authority through the centuries. The Putney extracts are perhaps its strongest moment, with figures of the time hashing out subtle issues of king/subject relations.
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