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Left Wing Democracy in the English Civil War - A Study of the Social Philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley

Author : David W. Petegorsky

Publisher : Read Books Ltd

Page : 279 pages

File Size : 30,64 MB

Release : 2013-01-11

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1447486633

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Originally published in the 1930s, this book contains a comprehensive study of the social philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley, and would make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject. Contents include: The Background of the Civil War; The Development of Radical Political Thought During the Civil War; The Digger Movement; The Political and Social Philosophy of the Digger Movement; Winstanley's Utopia. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.



Left-wing Democracy in the English Civil War

Author : David W. Petegorsky

Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing

Page : 282 pages

File Size : 16,66 MB

Release : 1995

Category : History

ISBN :

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This pioneering study of Winstanley and the Digger movement offers a challenging analysis of the English Revolution and of the political ideas to which it gave rise.





The Left Case for Brexit

Author : Richard Tuck

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 161 pages

File Size : 32,56 MB

Release : 2020-04-09

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1509542299

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Liberal left orthodoxy holds that Brexit is a disastrous coup, orchestrated by the hard right and fuelled by xenophobia, which will break up the Union and turn what’s left of Britain into a neoliberal dystopia. Richard Tuck’s ongoing commentary on the Brexit crisis demolishes this narrative. He argues that by opposing Brexit and throwing its lot in with a liberal constitutional order tailor-made for the interests of global capitalists, the Left has made a major error. It has tied itself into a framework designed to frustrate its own radical policies. Brexit therefore actually represents a golden opportunity for socialists to implement the kind of economic agenda they have long since advocated. Sadly, however, many of them have lost faith in the kind of popular revolution that the majoritarian British constitution is peculiarly well-placed to deliver and have succumbed instead to defeatism and the cultural politics of virtue-signalling. Another approach is, however, still possible. Combining brilliant contemporary political insights with a profound grasp of the ironies of modern history, this book is essential for anyone who wants a clear-sighted assessment of the momentous underlying issues brought to the surface by Brexit.



The People

Author : Margaret Canovan

Publisher : Polity

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 12,15 MB

Release : 2005-09-16

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 9780745628219

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This groundbreaking study sets out to clarify one of the most influential but least studied of all political concepts. Despite continual talk of popular sovereignty, the idea of the people has been neglected by political theorists who have been deterred by its vagueness. Margaret Canovan argues that it deserves serious analysis, and that it's many ambiguities point to unresolved political issues. The book begins by charting the conflicting meanings of the people, especially in Anglo-American usage, and traces the concept's development from the ancient populus Romanus to the present day. The book's main purpose is, however, to analyse the political issues signalled by the people's ambiguities. In the remaining chapters, Margaret Canovan considers their theoretical and practical aspects: Where are the people's boundaries? Is people equivalent to nation, and how is it related to humanity - people in general? Populists aim to 'give power back to the people'; how is populism related to democracy? How can the sovereign people be an immortal collective body, but at the same time be us as individuals? Can we ever see that sovereign people in action? Political myths surround the figure of the people and help to explain its influence; should the people itself be regarded as fictional? This original and accessible study sheds a fresh light on debates about popular sovereignty, and will be an important resource for students and scholars of political theory.



Left Wing Democracy in the English Civil War - A Study of the Social Philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley

Author : David Petegorsky

Publisher : Hesperides Press

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 16,84 MB

Release : 2008-11

Category : History

ISBN : 1443736864

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Originally published in the 1930s. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include: The Background of the Civil War - The Development of Radical Political Thought During the Civil War - Gerrard Winstanley, A Forgotten Radical - The Digger Movement - The Political and Social Philosophy of the Digger Movement - Winstanley's Utopia



The Idea of Property in Seventeenth-century England

Author : Laura Brace

Publisher : Manchester University Press

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 27,71 MB

Release : 1998

Category : History

ISBN : 9780719051791

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Regarded by contemporaries as the chief dispute of our times, tithes were the subject of intense controversy in the 1650s. Ministers, reformers, radicals and sectarians all went into print to defend or destroy the clergy's right to a tenth of the produce of the land. Tithes pushed the limits of private property, and both their opponents and their defenders recognized their significance for ownership, the law, liberty and individuality.



Milton and Questions of History

Author : Mary Ellen Nyquist

Publisher : University of Toronto Press

Page : 465 pages

File Size : 26,98 MB

Release : 2012-01-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1442643927

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Milton and Questions of History considers the contribution of several classic studies of Milton written by Canadians in the twentieth century. It contemplates whether these might be termed a coherent 'school' of Milton studies in Canada and it explores how these concerns might intervene in current critical and scholarly debates on Milton and, more broadly, on historicist criticism in its relationship to renewed interest in literary form. The volume opens with a selection of seminal articles by noted scholars including Northrop Frye, Hugh McCallum, Douglas Bush, Ernest Sirluck, and A.S.P. Woodhouse. Subsequent essays engage and contextualize these works while incorporating fresh intellectual concerns. The Introduction and Afterword frame the contents so that they constitute a dialogue between past and present critical studies of Milton by Canadian scholars.



Britain's Flirtation with the Socialist Imaginary

Author : Chris Wilkes

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Page : 435 pages

File Size : 30,92 MB

Release : 2024-05-09

Category : History

ISBN : 1036403025

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In 1945, Winston Churchill, fresh from winning World War Two for Britain, called an election. Within days, he was thrown out, and a completely new form of government took hold. What followed was a revolutionary period in British history, in which centuries of tradition were questioned. Socialism appeared to be waiting in the wings. This book traces the origins of this transformation in the long history of British democracy. It examines the ideas and actions which began in the 1930s that enabled this revolution and the new society that emerged beyond its origins and into the 21st Century. The problems that this revolution sought to solve remain to this day, as the British government in 2024 wrestles with strikes, social disorder, and massive economic headwinds. Understanding the history of the present dilemmas is essential if we are to grapple successfully with the enduring problems Britain still faces to this day.



Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution

Author : Ann Hughes

Publisher : OUP Oxford

Page : 496 pages

File Size : 12,73 MB

Release : 2004-09-23

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0191530816

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This is the first comprehensive study of Gangraena, an intemperate anti-sectarian polemic written by a London Presbyterian Thomas Edwards and published in three parts in 1646. These books, which bitterly opposed any moves to religious toleration, were the most notorious and widely debated texts in a Revolution in which print was crucial to political moblization. They have been equally important to later scholars who have continued the lively debate over the value of Gangraena as a source for the ideas and movements its author condemned. This study includes a thorough assessment of the usefulness of Edwards's work as a historical source, but goes beyond this to provide a wide-ranging discussion of the importance of Gangraena in its own right as a lively work of propaganda, crucial to Presbyterian campaigning in the mid-1640s. Contemporary and later readings of this complex text are traced through a variety of methods, literary and historical, with discussions of printed responses, annotations and citation. Hughes's work thus provides a vivid and convincing picture of revolutionary London and a reappraisal of the nature of 1640s Presbyterianism, too often dismissed as conservative. Drawing on the newer histories of the book and of reading, Hughes explores the influence of Edwards's distasteful but compelling book.