Description
Book SynopsisOffers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Foxley challenges received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalization of parliamentarian thought.
Trade Review...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.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
