Leveller Manifestoes of the Puritan Revolution
Leveller Manifestoes of the Puritan Revolution

Author: Don M. Wolfe

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-17

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1000870251

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Leveller Manifestoes (1944) is a collection of primary manifestoes issued by the Levellers, the group which played an active and influential role in the English revolution of 1642–49. This book collects together rare pamphlets and tracts that are seldom available, and certainly not in one place for ease of research.

The Putney Debates
The Putney Debates

Author: The Levellers

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2018-11-27

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1788731417

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In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army in Parliament’s struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration. This came to a head with the famous debates between the Levellers and Cromwell at St Mary's church in Putney, London. Renowned human-rights lawyer and author Geoffrey Robertson argues for the relevance of the Levellers' stand today, showing how they were the first Western radical democrats.

The English Levellers
The English Levellers

Author: Andrew Sharp

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-06-11

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780521625111

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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.