The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
by Christopher Hill
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages432 pages
ISBN
9780140137323
Published
1972
Description
Within the English revolution of the mid-17th 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...Within the English revolution of the mid-17th 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, 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.
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