The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During The English Revolution
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In one of the most turbulent decades in British history, a seismic collision of faith, politics, and social rebellion threatened to remake England from the ground up — and The World Turned Upside Down chronicles this extraordinary moment with forensic brilliance. Historian Christopher Hill immerses the reader in the radical ferment of the 1640s and 1650s, bringing to life the Diggers, Ranters, Levellers, and Fifth Monarchists whose utopian visions and revolutionary demands challenged the very foundations of property, religion, and political authority during the English Revolution. Hill argues with commanding authority that this period produced a radical tradition far more subversive and imaginative than conventional histories have acknowledged, uncovering voices that were deliberately suppressed and forgotten by the triumphant establishment. His prose is at once scholarly and vivid, drawing on a vast range of pamphlets, sermons, and testimonies to reconstruct a world crackling with dangerous ideas. A landmark work of Marxist historiography, it raises an unsettling question that lingers long after the final page: what might England — and the world — have become, had these radicals prevailed?
Author: Christopher Hill
Format: Paperback
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In one of the most turbulent decades in British history, a seismic collision of faith, politics, and social rebellion threatened to remake England from the ground up — and The World Turned Upside Down chronicles this extraordinary moment with forensic brilliance. Historian Christopher Hill immerses the reader in the radical ferment of the 1640s and 1650s, bringing to life the Diggers, Ranters, Levellers, and Fifth Monarchists whose utopian visions and revolutionary demands challenged the very foundations of property, religion, and political authority during the English Revolution. Hill argues with commanding authority that this period produced a radical tradition far more subversive and imaginative than conventional histories have acknowledged, uncovering voices that were deliberately suppressed and forgotten by the triumphant establishment. His prose is at once scholarly and vivid, drawing on a vast range of pamphlets, sermons, and testimonies to reconstruct a world crackling with dangerous ideas. A landmark work of Marxist historiography, it raises an unsettling question that lingers long after the final page: what might England — and the world — have become, had these radicals prevailed?