Jackdaw (A Rinehart suspense novel)

Hill, Christopher

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

This is a nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts: fenland farmer and humble backbencher; stalwart of the good old cause and the New Model Army; key figure of the Commonwealth; and, finally Lord Protector. Hill leads the reader unsentimentally through Cromwell's life from his beginnings in Huntingdonshire to his brutal end. Hill brings all his considerable knowledge of the period to bear on the relationships God's Englishman had with God and England. Such a detailed understanding of the workings of providence is vital to understanding Cromwell.

God's Englishman Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

History

Harpercollins College Div

Examines every important aspect of Milton's life and of his work as poet, politician, and religious thinker, relating his actions and ideas to those of his contemporaries

Milton and the English Revolution

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Viking Pr

This book attempts an assessment of the place of Lenin in history and of the revolution which was his life's work. The Bolshevik Party itself; an account of the features which differentiate it from other socialist parties; the agrarian policy of this party in a country where peasants formed 80% of the population; the political philosophy which inspired the revolution and the soviet state; Lenin's critique of imperialism and his definition of the national and international policy which the rulers of the Soviet state should pursue - these are some of the subjects considered in this study of Lenin and the Russian revolution.

Lenin and the Russian Revolution: Revised Edition

Russia

Penguin??Books

“Immensely rich and exciting . . . Christopher Hill has that supreme gift of being able to show us the seventeenth-century world from the inside.”—Arthur Marwick in New Society 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 “master-less” men, the outbursts of sexual freedom and deliberate blasphemy, the great imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan—these and many other elements build up into a marvelously detailed and coherent portrait of this strange, sudden effusion of revolutionary beliefs. It is a portrait not of the bourgeois revolution that actually took place but of the impulse towards a far more fundamental overturning of society. “Brilliant . . . he depicts with marvelous erudition and sympathy the profound rationality of the Cromwellian ‘underground.’”—David Caute in New Statesman “Incorporates some of Dr. Hill’s most profound statements yet about the seventeenth-century revolution as a whole.”—Economist

World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (Penguin History)

Europe

Penguin Group USA

The translation of the Bible into English in the 16th century was one of the most important events in English history. Previously, the sacred text had been accessible only to a tiny minority, now anybody could read or listen to it. This study explores some of the effects of the Bible - on English literature during its greatest century, on social, agrarian, foreign and colonial policies. During the 17th-century Revolution, the Bible was used to justify both resistance to and defence of the King, and it called into question all established institutions and practices. But the Revolution revealed the impossiblity of agreeing on what the Bible said. This book should help a better understanding of England's most controversial century.

The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution

Religion & Spirituality

The Reformation to Industrial Revolution: 1530-1780; Volume 2 (Economic Hist of Britain)

Lenin and the Russian Revolution

Focuses on the individuals and groups that advocated radical change in English politics and society during the mid-seventeenth century

The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

In the plays and popular folklore of the 17th and 18th centuries are many expressions of liberty against the law: there are the colorful beggars of "The Jovial Crew" who are no worse than the eminent politicians; the ballads of Robin Hood personify the opposition between the freedom of the outlaw in the woods and the status constraints on the society man. Christopher Hill considers how the peasantry was effected by enclosures, the loss of many traditional rights, and draconian punishments for minor transgressions. These expressions of contempt for the law challenge the equation of law with property and begin to pose the question, "Freedom for Whom?" Wrote Keith Thomas in The Guardian, "Hill must have read more of the literature written in and about 17-century England than anyone who has ever lived. He misses nothing."

Liberty Against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies

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