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Title: World Turned Upside Down, The: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
Author: HILL CHRISTOPHER
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 06/02/2020
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
A gripping, extraordinary account of England in an era of revolutionary turmoil
Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic – the ideology of the propertied class – there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might have disestablished the state church and rejected the protestant ethic.
In The World Turned Upside Down Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. The relations between rich and poor classes, the part played by wandering ‘masterless’ men, the outbursts of sexual freedom, the great imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan – these and many other elements build up into a marvellously detailed and coherent portrait of this strange, sudden effusion of revolutionary beliefs.
ISBN: 9780141993133
Weight: 327g
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 448