Christopher Hill (historian)

John Edward Christopher Hill ( born February 6, 1912 in York, † 23 February 2003) was a British Marxist historian. From 1965 to 1978, Hill Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Also, before and after his work as a master, he was a historian at the University of Oxford.

Life

Hill was born in 1911 as son of Methodists from the middle class in York. He also visited the St Peter 's School. From this out, he was recruited at the age of 16 years by Vivien Galbraith at Balliol College. In Oxford Hill came first with Marxist ideology in contact and took over this political view. 1935 Hill joined the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CPGB ) in and spent a year in the Soviet Union. After he had returned in 1936 from the Soviet Union to the United Kingdom, Hill began his academic career as an assistant lecturer, and two years later he became a tutor for modern history. In 1940 he joined the Army in, but had during the Second World War no front line, but was used as a Lieutenant and Major in Oxford and at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 1957, a year after the suppression of the Hungarian uprising, he left the Communist Party of Great Britain after the war, Hill began to publish a variety of books. In addition, his academic career was in the years 1965 to 1978 culminating, as Master of the Hill - was associated with Balliol College - to the University of Oxford.

Works

  • Lenin and the Russian revolution, 1947, London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd..
  • The English revolution, 1640, 1955, London: Lawrence & Wishart.
  • Economic Problems of the Church, 1956, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Oliver Cromwell, 1658-1958, 1958, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  • Puritanism and Revolution, 1958, London: Secker & Warburg.
  • The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714, 1961, Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson.
  • Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, 1965, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Reformation to Industrial Reformation, 1967, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
  • The pelican economic history of Britain, 1969, Penguin Books.
  • God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English revolution, 1970, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
  • Antichrist in seventeenth -century England, 1971, London: Oxford University Press.
  • The world turned upside down, 1972, London: Maurice Temple Smith.
  • Change and continuity in seventeenth century England, 1974, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0,297,768,220th
  • Milton and the English revolution, 1977, London: Faber. ISBN 057111170X.
  • Some intellectual Consequences of the English Revolution, c1980, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0,297,777,807th
  • World of the Muggletonians, 1983, London: Temple Smith. ISBN 0,085,117,226th
  • The experience of defeat, 1984, London: Faber. ISBN 0571132375th
  • Collected Essays of Christopher Hill, 1985/1986, Brighton: Harvester.
  • Writing and revolution in seventeenth -century England. ISBN 0710805659th
  • Religion and politics in 17th century England. ISBN 0,710,805,071th
  • People and ideas in 17th century England. ISBN 0710805128th
  • A turbulent, seditious, and factions people, 1988, Oxford: Clarendon. ISBN 0198128185th
  • A tinker and a poor man, 1988, W. W. Norton. ISBN 0393306623rd
  • History and the present, in 1989, South Place Ethical Society. ISBN 090236815X.
  • A nation of change and novelty, 1990, London: Routledge. ISBN 0415048338th
  • The English Bible and the seventeenth -century revolution, 1993, London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0,713,990,783th
  • Liberty against the law, 1996, London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0,713,991,194th
  • England 's turning point, 1998, London: Bookmarks. ISBN 1,898,876,258th
  • Flowers in the cities, in 1998, London: Marshall Pickering. ISBN 0,551,031,662th

As editor

  • The English revolution, 1640, 1940, London: Lawrence & Wishart.
  • The Good Old Cause. The English revolution of 1640-60: its causes, course and consequences, 1947, London: . Lawrence & Wishart.
  • The Levellers and the English Revolution, 1961, London: Cresset Press.
  • Gerrard Winstanley: The law of freedom, and other writings, 1973, Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 0,140,400,230th
  • Anglicans and Roman Catholics, 1994, London: SPCK / CTS. ISBN 0281047456th
  • Anglican orders, 1997, Norwich: Canterbury Press. ISBN 1,853,111,635th

German translations

  • The English Revolution of 1640 Four Essays, 1952, Berlin: .. Dietz Verlag.
  • From the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution: Social and Economic History of England 1530 - 1780, 1977, Frankfurt / Main, New York: Campus Verlag. ISBN 3-593-32533-0.
  • About some intellectual consequences of the English Revolution, 1990, Berlin: Wagenbach. ISBN 3-8031-5123-6.
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