Following the Levellers, Volume One

Gary S. De Krey is Emeritus Professor of History at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, USA.  A past president of the Midwest Conference on British Studies, he has published two books about London politics in the late Stuart era (1660-1714) as well as Restoration and Revolution in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

• CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION: THE LEVELLERS, THEIR FOLLOWERS, AND THE HISTORIANS.- CHAPTER TWO: LEVELLER CONTEXTS.- CHAPTER THREE: LEVELLER ORIGINS.- CHAPTER FOUR: THE EMERGENCE OF THE LEVELLERS, 1647.-  CHAPTER FIVE: THE LEVELLERS AND THE AGREEEMENT, 1647-8.- CHAPTER SIX: THE LEVELLERS AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION, 1648-9.- CHAPTER SEVEN:  THE LEVELLER CHALLENGE TO THE COMMONWEALTH REGIME, 1649.- CHAPTER EIGHT: CONCLUSION:  THE ENDURANCE OF THE LEVELLERS.

“De Krey puts forward arguments which will be of interest to the Levellers’ most devoted scholars. … The detail and scope of Following the Levellers is extraordinary. It is as much a major study of 17th-century radical political and religious culture and identity as it is a re-evaluation of the Levellers per se. … The [volume] is thoughtfully structured and the straightforwardness of the prose is effective.” (Edward Legon, Parliamentary History, Vol. 38 (3), 2019)