English Revolution
The following are a selection of chapters and extracts taken from books in the OLL collection. They have been chosen because of their special importance for understanding the principles of individual liberty, limited government, and the free market. Some of the extracts are from the books themselves and serve as a representative sample of that author’s ideas. Others are introductions written by the editors of the volume which contain important biographical information about the author and a discussion of their ideas. Links are provided to the book from which the extract was taken so the reader can pursue the subject in more depth if they are interested.
Other collections of material from the OLL which are useful places to begin exploring these ideas are the following:
- Quotations about Liberty and Power
- The Best of the OLL: An Anthology
- Forgotten Gems of Liberty
- Key Documents of Liberty
- Classics of Liberty
A Seven Volume Collection of Leveller Writings
The complete 7 vol. collection (in progress): Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics (1638-1659), 7 vols. Edited by David M. Hart and Ross Kenyon (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2014).
Two volumes have been completed to date:
- Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics Vol. 1 (1638-1643)
- Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics Vol. 3 (1646)
We have put online temporarily the uncorrected HTML files for some of the other volumes:
- Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics Vol. 1 (1638-1843)
- Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics Vol. 2 (1644-1645)
- Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics Vol. 4 (1647)
- Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics Vol. 6 (1649)
Further Reading
- Topic: the English Revolution
- School of Thought: 17thC Natural Rights Theorists
- School of Thought: the Levellers
- Historical Debate: the Divine Right of Kings
- Anthology: Key Documents of Liberty