Mulder, David
The Alchemy of Revolution

Gerrard Winstanley's Occultism and Seventeenth-Century English Communism.

A reinterpretation of the development of communism among the lower classes during the English Revolution of the 1640s. The subject of the study is the revolutionary ideology of Gerrard Winstanley, the leader of the Diggers, a group of rural laborers who in 1649 founded a communistic colony and challenged conservative revolutionary leaders like Oliver Cromwell. Analyzing Winstanley's ideology on its own terms, the author shows that hermeticism formed the basis of what was genuinely revolutionary in Digger ideology. XI,364 Seiten, gebunden (American University Studies. Series IX: History; Vol. 77/Peter Lang Verlag 1990) Mängelexemplar/near mint