The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the Levellers and the English StateIn the autumn of 1647, soldiers and officers of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army held discussions near London on the constitution and future of England. Would there be a king and lords, or not? Would suffrage be limited to property holders? Would democratic changes lead to anarchy? The debates receive here their first sustained and varied scrutiny, resulting in a much richer appreciation of the very words reported to have been spoken by Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, Thomas Rainborough, and the others, during those three tense and exhilarating days. |
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Inhalt
Introduction | 3 |
The survival of the manuscript | 21 |
Reading and writing the text of the Putney debates | 38 |
The debates from the perspective of the army | 55 |
The army the state and the soldier in the English civil war | 81 |
The case of the armie truly restated | 105 |
Putneys pronouns identity and indemnity in the great debate | 127 |
The Agreements of the people and their political contexts 16471649 | 150 |
From Reading to Whitehall Henry Iretons journey | 177 |
The poorest she women and citizenship in early modern England | 199 |
The Leveller legacy from the Restoration to the Exclusion Crisis | 221 |
Puritanism liberty and the Putney debates | 243 |
The Levellers in history and memory c 16601960 | 258 |
The true Levellers standard revisited an afterword | 285 |
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The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the Levellers and the English State Michael Mendle Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2010 |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the Levellers and the English State |
| Herausgeber | Michael Mendle |
| Verlag | Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0521650151, 9780521650151 |
| Länge | 297 Seiten |
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