The English Levellers

The Levellers were a crucial component of a radically democratic movement during the civil wars in seventeenth-century England. This was to be democratic at a time when the very idea of democracy conjured up nothing good; with its suggestion of anarchy and the 'levelling' of distinctions i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sharp, Andrew, 1940- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press 1998.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39794726*spi
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  • On the 150th page: an untitled broadsheet of August 1645 / John Lilburne
  • Toleration justified and persecution condemned (29 Jan. 1646) / William Walwyn
  • Postscript to The freeman's freedom vindicated (16 June 1646) / John Lilburne
  • A remonstrance of many thousand citizens (7 July 1646) / Richard Overton & William Walwyn
  • An arrow against all tyrants (12 Oct. 1646) / Richard Overton
  • Gold tried in the fire (4 June 1647) / William Walwyn
  • An agreement of the people for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right and freedom (28 Oct. 1647)
  • Extract from the debates at the General Council of the Army, Putney (29 Oct. 1647) / Members of the New Model Army and civilian Levellers
  • The petition of 11 September 1648 / John Lilburne & others
  • England's new chains discovered (26 Feb. 1649) / John Lilburne
  • A manifestation (14 April 1649) / William Walwyn, and on behalf of John Lilburne, Thomas Prince & Richard Overton
  • An agreement of the free people of England (1 May 1649) / John Lilburne, William Walwyn, Thomas Prince & Richard Overton
  • The young men's and the apprentices' outcry (29 Aug. 1649) / John Lilburne.