Casualties of History: The Kingdom Within
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šļø 17 April 2020
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Summary
We cover chapters one and two ā "Members Unlimited" and "Christian Apollyon" ā on this week's episode. Rachel Foxley, a professor of history at the University of Reading and author of The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution, joins us to talk about the English Revolution.
Secondary Reading:
Rachel Foxley, The Levellers (Manchester University Press, 2013).
Christopher Hill, The Experience of Defeat(Verso, 2017).
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra(Verso, 2014).
CB Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Beacon Press, 1993).
Ellen Meiksins Wood, Democracy Against Capitalism(Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And Hey and welcome to casualties of history a podcast where we make our way through EP Thompson's, the making of the English |
| 0:25.9 | working class one chapter at a time. |
| 0:28.7 | This week's episode is chapters one and two. |
| 0:31.6 | Last week's was the preface. We have a couple logistical things at the top of the show the first is that we have a slack channel so if you subscribe on patreon that's patreon dot com backslash casualties of history you can get added to the slack and people are discussing the book and other readings in there |
| 0:49.1 | because we want this to be as much a book club as a podcast and we want people to read along. |
| 0:54.2 | So we're in there throughout the week talking about the book and about anything related to |
| 0:59.2 | the readings. |
| 1:00.2 | Thanks Alex. |
| 1:01.2 | I also would just like to take a moment to correct a couple of errors that I made off the cuff last week. |
| 1:07.0 | First of all, I said that the phrase Luddite Cropper refers to an agricultural worker thinking that that's the |
| 1:14.8 | cropper meant. I should have known better. Luddites were of course |
| 1:17.6 | smashing industrial machinery and the phrase the word cropper refers to a kind of textile worker. |
| 1:25.0 | Second, I said that Thompson did not fight in World War II when I was describing his biography, but his brother did. |
| 1:30.0 | That also was incorrect. |
| 1:32.0 | Thompson was a tank commander in Italy. So I'll just |
| 1:34.8 | you know continue to correct myself as I inevitably make more mistakes over the course of the |
| 1:38.2 | podcast but I want to hold myself to a high stand. So today we are very pleased to have with us as a guest Dr Rachel Foxley who teaches at |
| 2:09.0 | University of Reading in England and is the author of The Levelers from Manchester University Press, |
| 2:15.2 | subtitle Radical Thought in the English Revolution. |
| 2:19.5 | Welcome, Dr Foxley. |
| 2:20.9 | It's great to be here. |
| 2:21.9 | Thank you for asking me. It's great to be here. Thank you for asking me. It's great to have you. So given |
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