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

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Philip Baker

    1. History of Parliament Trust, London, UK
      Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham, UK

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  2. Elliot Vernon
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The History and Historiography of the Agreements of the People

    • Elliot Vernon, Philip Baker
    Pages 1-27

  3. Oaths, Covenants, Associations and the Origins of the Agreements of the People: The Road to and from Putney

    • Edward Vallance
    Pages 28-49

  4. The People of the Agreements: The Levellers, Civil War Radicalism and Political Participation

    • Jason Peacey
    Pages 50-75

  5. Constitutionalism: Ancient, Modern and Early Modern in the Agreements of the People

    • D. Alan Orr
    Pages 76-96

  6. The Levellers, Decentralisation and the Agreements of the People

    • Philip Baker
    Pages 97-116

  7. Freedom of Conscience and the Agreements of the People

    • Rachel Foxley
    Pages 117-138

  8. The New Model Army and the Constitutional Crisis of the Late 1640s

    • Ian Gentles
    Pages 139-162

  9. Drafting the Officers’ Agreement of the People, 1648–49: A Reappraisal

    • Frances Henderson
    Pages 163-194

  10. ‘A Firme and Present Peace; Upon Grounds of Common Right and Freedome’: The Debate on the Agreements of the People and the Crisis of the Constitution, 1647–59

    • Elliot Vernon
    Pages 195-217

  11. Diggers, True Levellers and the Crisis of the English Revolution

    • Ann Hughes
    Pages 218-238

  12. The Agreements of the People and the Constitutions of the Interregnum Governments

    • David L. Smith
    Pages 239-261

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 262-272
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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.

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Won Book of the Week at the University of Buckingham (7th August 2013)

"The [historiographical] landscape is altered in sometimes startling, but always refreshing, ways and, for those interested in the English revolution, the development of constitutional thought and the sources and character of early modern radicalism, this is an indispensable text." - J.C. Davis, Parliamentary History

Editors and Affiliations

  • History of Parliament Trust, London, UK

    Philip Baker

  • Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham, UK

    Philip Baker

About the editors

RACHEL FOXLEY Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Reading, UK IAN GENTLES Visiting Professor of History at Tyndale University College, Toronto, and Professor of History at York University, Toronto, Canada FRANCES HENDERSON Former Research Associate of Worcester College, Oxford, and of the University of Cambridge, UK ANN HUGHES Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University, UK ALAN ORR holds an appointment in Intellectual History at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, USA JASON PEACEY Senior Lecturer in History at University College, London, UK DAVID L. SMITH Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK EDWARD VALLANCE Reader in Early Modern History at Roehampton University, UK

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