Brave Community: The Digger Movement in the English Revolution - Rilegato

Gurney, John Steven

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ISBN 10: 0719061024 ISBN 13: 9780719061028

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2007

Riassunto

This is the first full-length, modern study of the Diggers or "True Levellers", who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. It was in April 1649 that the Diggers, inspired by the teachings and writings of Gerrard Winstanley, began their occupation of waste land at St. George's Hill in Surrey and called on all poor people to join them or follow their example. Acting at a time of unparalleled political change and heightened millenarian expectation, the Diggers believed that the establishment of an egalitarian, property-less society was imminent. This book should be of interest to all those interested in England's mid-seventeenth-century revolution and in the history of radical movements.

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Recensione:

John Gurney brings an acute eye to the local political background to the Diggers' occupation as well as the ideas that inspirred them. --Greg Neale, BBC History Magazine

John Gurney's meticulously researched book is the fullest investigation of the Digger colonies to appear. So much of this is new that historians cannot fail to recognise the debt they owe to Gurney. --R. C. Richardson, Times Higher Education Supplement

L'autore:

John Gurney is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0719061024
• ISBN 13: 9780719061028
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 236