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NEW SERIES FROM VERSO: CHRISTOPHER HILL CLASSICS - Historical Materialism
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NEW SERIES FROM VERSO: CHRISTOPHER HILL CLASSICS

12th Apr 2017

NEW SERIES FROM VERSO: 

CHRISTOPHER HILL CLASSICS

 

Christopher Hill was the preeminent figure of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English history, and one of the most distinguished historians of recent times. Fellow historian E.P. Thompson once referred to him as the dean and paragon of English historians. This new series makes available key books from his oeuvre.

 

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THE EXPERIENCE OF DEFEAT: MILTON AND SOME CONTEMPORARIES

By Christopher Hill

 

What happened to the radicals when the English Revolution failed?

 

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2247-the-experience-of-defeat

 

The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of “God’s cause”—a struggle for liberty and republican freedom. While most accounts of this period concentrate on the court, Christopher Hill focuses on those who mourned the passing of the most radical era in English history. In The Experience of Defeat, Christopher Hill explores the writings and lives of the Levellers, the Ranters and the Diggers, as well as the work of George Fox and other important early Quakers. The radical protestant clergy, as well as republican intellectuals and writers generally, had to explain why providence had forsaken the agents of God’s work.

 

“Intensely interesting … Essential.”

– Perez Zagorin, Journal of Modern History

 

“The commanding interpreter of seventeenth-century England.”

– Guardian

 

PAPERBACK:  JANUARY 2017 / 352 PAGES / ISBN 9781784786694 / $24.95 / £14.99 / $33 (CAN)

 

AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK

 

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2247-the-experience-of-defeat

 

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A TURBULENT, SEDITIOUS AND FACTIOUS PEOPLE: JOHN BUNYAN AND HIS CHURCH

By Christopher Hill

 

Preacher, soldier, rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?

 

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2249-a-turbulent-seditious-and-factious-people

 

John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most important works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, it once rivalled the Bible in popularity in the English-speaking world. In A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People, Christopher Hill reassesses the well-known author to recover Bunyan’s significance as a preacher—a man whose nonconformist religion led him into conflict with the Quakers and resulted in long years of imprisonment. This classic biography by one of the leading historians of the seventeenth century offers an extraordinary insight into one of Britain’s most influential writers.

 

“Magnificent and searching study … provocative, absorbing and hugely knowledgeable.”

– Sunday Times

 

“Hill claims to put Bunyan back into his ‘revolutionary age’ … and is totally successful.”

– London Review of Books

 

PAPERBACK:  JANUARY 2017 / 416 PAGES / ISBN 9781784786861 / $24.95 / £14.99 / $33 (CAN)

 

AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK

 

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2249-a-turbulent-seditious-and-factious-people

 

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