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The Leveller

Author : Julia Durango
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062314025
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Leveller written by Julia Durango and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gamers and action fans of all types will dive straight into the MEEP, a virtual-reality gaming world, thanks to Julia Durango's cinematic storytelling. A touch of romance, constant twists, and a vivid, multidimensional journey through a tricked-out virtual city will keep readers flying through to the breathtaking end. Nixy Bauer is used to her classmates being very, very unhappy to see her. After all, she's a bounty hunter in a virtual-reality gaming world—and she's frequently hired by irritated parents to pull kids out of the mazelike MEEP universe. But when the game's billionaire developer loses track of his own son in the MEEP, Nixy is in for the biggest challenge of her bounty-hunting career. Wyn Salvador isn't some lazy kid looking to escape his homework: Wyn does not want to be found. And he's left behind a suicide note. Nixy takes the job but quickly discovers that Wyn's not hiding—he's being held inside the game against his will. But who is holding him captive, and why? Nixy and Wyn attempt to fight their way out of a mind game unlike any they've encountered, and the battle brings them closer than either could have imagined. But when the whole world is virtual, how can Nixy possibly know if her feelings are real?

The Leveller Revolution

Author : John Rees
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784783897
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Leveller Revolution written by John Rees and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings to life the men—including John Lilburne, Richard Overton and Thomas Rainsborough—and women who ensured victory and became an inspiration to republicans of many nations. From the raucous streets of London and the clattering printers’ workshops that stoked the uprising, to the rank and file of the New Model Army and the furious Putney debates where the Levellers argued with Oliver Cromwell for the future of English democracy, this story reasserts the revolutionary nature of the 1642–51 wars and the role of ordinary people in this pivotal moment in history. In particular Rees places the Levellers at the centre of the debates of 1647 when the nation was gripped by the question of what to do with the defeated Charles I. Without the Levellers and Agitators’ fortitude and well-organised opposition history may have avoided the regicide and missed its revolutionary moment. The legacy of the Levellers can be seen in the modern struggles for freedom and democracy across the world.

The Levellers

Author : Rachel Foxley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526112086
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Levellers written by Rachel Foxley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty years, offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Challenging received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalisation of parliamentarian thought, Foxley shows that the Levellers’ originality lay in their subtle and unexpected combination of different strands within parliamentarianism. The book takes full account of recent scholarship, and contributes to historical debates on the development of radical and republican politics in the civil war period, the nature of tolerationist thought, the significance of the Leveller movement and the extent of the Levellers’ influence in the ranks of the New Model Army.

The Great Leveler

Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691184313
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Great Leveler written by Walter Scheidel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling—mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues—have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future. An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent—and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.

The Great Leveller

Author : Joe Abercrombie
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473212650
Total Pages : 1595 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Great Leveller written by Joe Abercrombie and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 1595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected together for the first time, here are the three hard-hitting standalone novels set in the world of Joe Abercrombie's bestselling FIRST LAW trilogy. BEST SERVED COLD: War may be hell but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orso's employ, it's a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular - a shade too popular for her employer's taste. Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead, Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Whatever the cost, seven men must die. THE HEROES: Over three bloody days of battle, the fate of the North will be decided. But with both sides riddled by intrigues, follies, feuds and petty jealousies, it is unlikely to be the noblest hearts, or even the strongest arms that prevail. Three men. One battle. No Heroes. RED COUNTRY: Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit off her family's killers with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old stepfather Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own, and out in the lawless Far Country, the past never stays buried.

The English Levellers

Author : Andrew Sharp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521625111
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book The English Levellers written by Andrew Sharp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Great Leveler

Author : Brett Christophers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674504917
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book The Great Leveler written by Brett Christophers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brett Christophers shows how laws help capitalism maintain a crucial balance between competition and monopoly. When monopolistic forces dominate, antitrust law discourages the growth of corporations and restores competitiveness. When competition becomes dominant, intellectual property law protects corporate assets and encourages investment.

The Putney Debates

Author : The Levellers
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788731425
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book The Putney Debates written by The Levellers and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Leveller

Author : George Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780908469055
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Leveller written by George Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Leveller Movement

Author : Theodore Calvin Pease
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Leveller Movement written by Theodore Calvin Pease and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Following the Levellers, Volume One

Author : Gary S. De Krey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137268433
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Following the Levellers, Volume One written by Gary S. De Krey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reinterprets the Leveller authorships of John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn, and foregrounds the role of ordinary people in petitioning and protest during an era of civil war and revolution. The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-49 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People. Their following was not a ‘movement’ but largely a political response of the sects that had emerged in London’s rapidly growing peripheral neighbourhoods and in other localities in the 1640s. This study argues that the Levellers did not emerge as a separate political faction before October 1647, that they did not succeed in establishing extensive political organisation, and that the troop revolt of spring 1649 was not really a Leveller phenomenon. Addressing the contested interpretations of the Levellers throughout, this book also introduces Leveller history to non-specialist readers.

Following the Levellers, Volume Two

Author : Gary S. De Krey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134995330X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Following the Levellers, Volume Two written by Gary S. De Krey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-9 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People. Following the Levellers, Volume Two examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne, John Wildman, and Richard Overton, and their followers. Far from ending in the 1649 troop revolts, the Leveller impact continued in the Interregnum climacterics of 1653 and 1659-60, times of acute political and religious unsettlement. Indeed, Leveller ideas resurfaced in Restoration political and religious crises in 1678-83 and again in 1687-8 and flourished in populations that once followed the Levellers. Analysis of London, army, and county Levellers reveals connections to subsequent outbursts of unrest. Sectarian communities in London’s peripheral neighbourhoods and nearby counties sustained the Leveller ethos, and ordinary people like those who followed the Levellers remained active in petitioning and protest about political and religious liberties through the Glorious Revolution.

Diggers, Levellers, and Agrarian Capitalism

Author : Geoff Kennedy
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739123744
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Diggers, Levellers, and Agrarian Capitalism written by Geoff Kennedy and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book situates the development of radical English political thought within the context of the specific nature of agrarian capitalism and the struggles that ensued around the nature of the state during the revolutionary decade of the 1640s. In the context of the emerging conceptions of the state and property - with attendant notions of accumulation, labor, and the common good - groups such as Levellers and Diggers developed distinctive forms of radical political thought not because they were progressive, forward thinkers, but because they were the most significant challengers of the newly constituted forms of political and economic power." "Drawing on recent reexaminations of the nature of agrarian capitalism and modernity in the early modern period, Geoff Kennedy argues that any interpretation of the political theory of this period must relate to the changing nature of social property relations and state power. The radical nature of early modern English political thought is therefore cast-in terms of its oppositional relationship to these novel forms of property and state power, rather than being conceived of as a formal break from discursive conventions."--BOOK JACKET.

The Levelling

Author : Michael O'Sullivan
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541724089
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Levelling written by Michael O'Sullivan and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions. The world is at a turning point similar to the fall of communism. Then, many focused on the collapse itself, and failed to see that a bigger trend, globalization, was about to take hold. The benefits of globalization--through the freer flow of money, people, ideas, and trade--have been many. But rather than a world that is flat, what has emerged is one of jagged peaks and rough, deep valleys characterized by wealth inequality, indebtedness, political recession, and imbalances across the world's economies. These peaks and valleys are undergoing what Michael O'Sullivan calls "the levelling"--a major transition in world economics, finance, and power. What's next is a levelling-out of wealth between poor and rich countries, of power between nations and regions, of political accountability from elites to the people, and of institutional power away from central banks and defunct twentieth-century institutions such as the WTO and the IMF. O'Sullivan then moves to ways we can develop new, pragmatic solutions to such critical problems as political discontent, stunted economic growth, the productive functioning of finance, and political-economic structures that serve broader needs. The Levelling comes at a crucial time in the rise and fall of nations. It has special importance for the US as its place in the world undergoes radical change--the ebbing of influence, profound questions over its economic model, societal decay, and the turmoil of public life.

John Lilburne and the Levellers

Author : John Rees
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131739755X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book John Lilburne and the Levellers written by John Rees and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lilburne (1615–1657), or 'Freeborn John' as he was called by the London crowd, was an important political agitator during the English Revolution. He was one of the leading figures in the Levellers, the short-lived but highly influential radical sect that called for law reform, religious tolerance, extended suffrage, the rights of freeborn Englishmen, and a new form of government that was answerable to the people and underpinned by a written constitution. This edited book assesses the legacy of Lilburne and the Levellers 400 years after his birth, and features contributions by leading historians. They examine the life of Lilburne, who was often imprisoned and even tortured for his beliefs, and his role as an inspirational figure even in contemporary politics. They also assess his writings that fearlessly exposed the hypocrisy and self-serving corruption of those in power – whether King Charles I or Oliver Cromwell. They look at his contribution to political ideas, his role as a revolutionary leader, his personal and political relations with his wife Elizabeth, his exile in the Netherlands, his late decision to become a Quaker, and his reputation after his death. This collection will be of enormous interest to academics, researchers, and readers with an interest in the English Civil War, seventeenth-century history, and the contemporary legacy of radical political tradition.

The Levellers and the English Revolution

Author : Henry Noel Brailsford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Levellers and the English Revolution written by Henry Noel Brailsford and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Agreements of the People, the Levellers, and the Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution

Author : Elliot Vernon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137291702
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Agreements of the People, the Levellers, and the Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution written by Elliot Vernon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agreements of the People were a series of written constitutions proposed variously by Levellers, soldiers and citizens for the settlement of the nation at the height of the English Revolution. The essays in this book explore the various Agreements in the context of the constitutional crisis that engulfed England in the late 1640s and 1650s.