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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 in rank and of property, even the holding of women in common. This collection of thirteen fully annotated Leveller writings, including their famous Agreements of the People, is important as a contribution not only to the understanding of the English civil wars, but also of democratic theory. The editor's introduction sets the Leveller ideas in their context and, together with a chronology, short biographies of the leading figures and a guide to further reading, will be of interest to students of the English civil wars, the history of political thought and the history of democratic ideas.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: English Levellers
• Author: Raymond Geuss, Andrew Sharp, Quentin Skinner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780521625111
• ISBN: 0521625114
• ID: 02037987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 356 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. June 1998

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