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God''s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

English

By (author): Christopher Hill

This is the classic life of Cromwell by one of the great radical historians of the English Civil War

'A triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose ... Hill introduced nuance into the character of Cromwell and the nature of his revolution ... the finest of guides to the man of the times' Tristram Hunt, Guardian

'A humane and imaginative book by a historian writing at the peak of his powers' Ivan Roots, Daily Telegraph

'This is the most intelligent summation we have on Cromwell, and it is written with the grace and power we have come to expect from Hill' J. P. Kenyon, Observer

'One of the finest historians of the age' The Times Literary Supplement

'The dean and paragon of English historians' E.P. Thompson

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Product Details
  • Weight: 229g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 199mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Apr 2019
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780141990095

About Christopher Hill

Christopher Hill (1912-2003) was educated at St Peter's School York and at Balliol College Oxford and in 1934 was made a fellow of All Souls College Oxford. In 1936 he became lecturer in modern history at University College Cardiff and two years later fellow and tutor in modern history at Balliol. After war service which included two years in the Russian department of the Foreign Office he returned to Oxford in 1945. From 1958 until 1965 he was university lecturer in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history and from 1965 to 1978 he was Master of Balliol College. His publications include Lenin and the Russian Revolution; Puritanism and Revolution; God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution; The World Turned Upside Down; Milton and the English Revolution which won the Royal Society of Literature Award; A Turbulent Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church which won the 1989 W. H. Smith Literary Award and The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution which was shortlisted for the 1993 NCR Book Award.

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