Experience of Defeat, The - Hardcover

Hill, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670302082 ISBN 13: 9780670302086

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1984

Synopsis

Book by Hill, Christopher

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Hill (1912–2003), born in York, was a historian and academic specializing in seventeenth-century English history. As a young man he witnessed the growth of the Nazi party firsthand during a prolonged holiday in Germany, an experience he later said contributed to the radicalization of his politics. He was master of Balliol College, University of Oxford, his alma mater, from 1965 to 1978. His celebrated and influential works include Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution; The World Turned Upside Down; and A Turbulent, Seditious and Fractious People: John Bunyan and His Church.

Review:

“Intensely interesting ... Essential.”
—Perez Zagorin, Journal of Modern History

“The commanding interpreter of seventeenth-century England ... No historian of recent times was so synonymous with his period of study; he is the reason why most of us know anything about the seventeenth century at all.”
—Guardian

“The dean and paragon of English historians.”
—E.P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class

“He established the concept of an ‘English Revolution’ every bit as significant and potentially as radical as its French and Russian equivalents ... Wide-ranging, popular and immensely prolific ... the dominant figure in studies of the period.”
—Telegraph

“A book I argued with from beginning to end, and I was sometimes overborne by its arguments. It is also, in an old-fashioned phrase, a book of great learning. Both these observations constitute high praise.”
—John Morrill, History Today

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0670302082
• ISBN 13: 9780670302086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 342