Harman Bhogal, Liam Haydon

An Analysis of Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down (eBook, PDF)

Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 98
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351351713
• Artikelnr.: 48800413

Autorenporträt

Dr Harman Bhogal holds a PhD in early Modern History from Birkbeck, London.

Dr Liam Haydon holds a doctorate in English literature from Manchester University. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kent, where his work focuses on the cultural impacts of global trade in the early seventeenth century.

Inhaltsangabe

Ways in to the Text Who was Christopher Hill? What does The World Turned
Upside Down Say? Why does The World Turned Upside Down Matter? Section 1:
Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2:
Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution
Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7:
Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module
9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and
Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned
in the Text Works Cited