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Commons
Radical commons, communalist, anti-enclosure, and common-treasury texts from early modern and modern social-religious movements.
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Texts
GlossaryA shelf-specific glossary starter for the Commons shelf.Introduction to Commons TraditionsA source-conscious introduction to the Commons shelf: Gerrard Winstanley, the Diggers, common treasury theology, Owenite reform, Babeuf's equality conspiracy, Blanqui's revolutionary organization, Feuerbach's secularizing turn, and the duties of reading common land, common goods, and revolutionary equality by genre.Reader's Guide to CommonsA source-led reading map through Digger common-treasury theology, Owenite formation, Babeuf's equality, Blanquist organization, property, labor, revolution, and the changing meanings of the commons.
Diggers28 pages
Gerrard Winstanley, the Diggers, and related seventeenth-century English commons writings: declarations, tracts, letters, songs, and state-paper witnesses around land, labor, creation-right, and common treasury.
General Texts38 pages
Levellers3 pages
The three Agreements of the People (1647, 1648, 1649): the Leveller movement's successive draft written constitutions for England, from the Putney Debates to the final version issued by Lilburne, Walwyn, Prince, and Overton from the Tower of London.