Following the Levellers, Volume One

Political and Religious Radicals in the English Civil War and Revolution, 1645–1649

Gary S. De Krey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

299 Seiten

2018 | 2017 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
9781137268426 (ISBN)

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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.

Gary S. De Krey is Emeritus Professor of History at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, USA. A past president of the Midwest Conference on British Studies, he has published two books about London politics in the late Stuart era (1660-1714) as well as Restoration and Revolution in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION: THE LEVELLERS, THEIR FOLLOWERS, AND THE HISTORIANS.- CHAPTER TWO: LEVELLER CONTEXTS.- CHAPTER THREE: LEVELLER ORIGINS.- CHAPTER FOUR: THE EMERGENCE OF THE LEVELLERS, 1647.- CHAPTER FIVE: THE LEVELLERS AND THE AGREEEMENT, 1647-8.- CHAPTER SIX: THE LEVELLERS AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION, 1648-9.- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE LEVELLER CHALLENGE TO THE COMMONWEALTH REGIME, 1649.- CHAPTER EIGHT: CONCLUSION: THE ENDURANCE OF THE LEVELLERS.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	9 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 299 p. 9 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781137268426 / 9781137268426
Zustand	Neuware