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Author: Gerrard Winstanley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-23
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0521031605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA selection from Winstanley's many published pamphlets on the behalf of the 'Diggers', led by Winstanley between 1649-50.
Author: Gerrard Winstanley
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Published: 2009-09-29
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781849021869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Gurney
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2012-11-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745331843
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The power of property was brought into creation by the sword", so wrote Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676) – Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bête noire of the landed aristocracy. Despite being one of the great English radicals, Winstanley remains unmentioned in today's lists of "great Britons". John Gurney reveals the hidden history of Winstanley and his movement. As part of the radical ferment which swept England at the time of the civil war, Winstanley led the Diggers in taking over land and running it as "a common treasury for all" – provoking violent opposition from landowners. Gurney also guides us through Winstanley's writings, which are among the most remarkable prose writings of his age. Gerrard Winstanley is a must read for students of English history and all those seeking to re-claim the commons today.
Author: Gerrard Winstanley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-01-22
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781492754879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the heady and exciting days of the English Revolution, the Diggers stand out for their radicalism, and their proposals to abolish money and private property, and to collectivize the land. Winstanley was an impassioned voice, arguing passionately against injustice and poverty with beguiling logic and a burning sense that society should be more egalitarian. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of political thought and theory. Winstanley stands in a long line of radical English thought which reaches back to Wat Tyler and the Peasants' Revolt and is seen today in the Occupy movement.
Author: Christopher Hill
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2020-01-14
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 1788736818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christopher Hill uses the literary culture of the seventeenth century to explore the immense social changes of the period as well as the expressions of liberty, the law and the hero-worship of the outlaw defiance. As well as chapters on gypsies and vagabonds, Hill analyzes class, religion and the shift away from the importance of the church after the Reformation. Liberty against the Law is a late classic of Hill's work and essential reading for anyone interested in the history and politics of the seventeenth-century.
Author: David Colclough
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-04-07
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521847483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAttending to the importance of context and decorum, this major contribution to Ideas in Context recovers a tradition of free speech that has been obscured in studies of the evolution of universal rights."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Christopher Hill
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas N. Corns
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0199576068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fully annotated edition establishes Gerrard Winstanley (1609-76) as a leading English prose writer and the foremost radical thinker of 17th-century England. It makes a major contribution to scholarship on English Civil War politics, religion, and literary culture.
Author: Christopher Hill
Publisher: Oxford : Past and Present Society
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 57
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eduard Bernstein
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-04-17
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1000870146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCromwell and Communism (1930) examines the English revolution against the absolute monarchy of Charles I. It looks at the economic and social conditions prevailing at the time, the first beginnings of dissent and the religious and political aims of the Parliamentarian side in the revolution and subsequent civil war. The various sects are examined, including the Levellers and their democratic, atheistic and communistic ideals.
