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An Analysis of Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

An Analysis of Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

Bhogal, Harman
Haydon, Liam

Paperback

Series: Macat Library

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1912128446
ISBN13: 9781912128440
Publisher: Macat Library
Published: Jul 15 2017
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

Few works of history have succeeded so completely in forcing their readers to take a fresh look at the evidence as Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down - and that achievement is rooted firmly in Hill's exceptional problem-solving skills.

Traditional interpretations of the English Civil War concentrated heavily on a top-down analysis of the doings of king and parliament. Hill looked at 'history from below, ' focusing instead on the ways in which the people of Britain saw the society they lived in and nurtured hopes for a better future. Failing to understand these factors - and the impact they had on the origins and outcomes of the wars of the 1640s - means failing to understand the historical period. In this sense, Hill's influential work is a great example of the problem-solving skills of asking productive questions and generating alternative possibilities. It forced a generation of historians to re-evaluate the things they thought they knew about a key pivot point in British history - and went on to influence the generations that came after them.

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