The world turned upside down

By Christopher Hill

Subjects: Politics and government, Intellectual life, Religion-Great Britian-History-Stuarts, Great britain, intellectual life, Religion, Révolutionnaires, 1603-1714, Great Britian-History-Stuarts, Englischer Bürgerkrieg, Politique et gouvernement, Histoire, Communism-England-History-17th Century, Radicalisme, Revolutionaire bewegingen, Great britain, history, puritan revolution, 1642-1660, Revolutionaries, English Commonwealth-1649-1660, English Civil War-1641-49, History, Great Britain, Revolutionairen

Description: From the subtitle "Radical Ideas during the English Revolution", a classic work by a major English radical scholar of a modern view of the English Revolution. The history of the rise of English Dissenters both political and religious pre-Civil War (1641) to the Restoration (1660). A discussion of the underlying social, economic, political, and religious influences of the period. An in depth discussion of the various individuals,the radical groups, and their writtings that were attempting to influence the political and social structure of the country, and a rising middle class. A well researched and footnotes work with an interesting Conclusion for modern scholars, and historians to discuss, and review on one of the major periods in English and Western History. A must read for any scholar of the period.