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    "description": "&ldquo;Immensely rich and exciting . . . Christopher Hill has that supreme gift of being able to show us the seventeenth-century world from the inside.&rdquo;&mdash;Arthur Marwick in <i>New Society<br></i><br> Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic&mdash;the ideology of the propertied class&mdash;there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success &ldquo;might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might have disestablished the state church and rejected the protestant ethic.&rdquo;<br> In <i>The World Turned Upside Down</i> Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers, and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. <br><br> The relations between rich and poor classes, the part played by wandering &ldquo;master-less&rdquo; men, the outbursts of sexual freedom and deliberate blasphemy, the great imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan&mdash;these and many other elements build up into a marvelously detailed and coherent portrait of this strange, sudden effusion of revolutionary beliefs. It is a portrait not of the bourgeois revolution that actually took place but of the impulse towards a far more fundamental overturning of society.<br><br> &ldquo;Brilliant . . . he depicts with marvelous erudition and sympathy the profound rationality of the Cromwellian &lsquo;underground.&rsquo;&rdquo;&mdash;David Caute in <i>New Statesman<br></i><br> &ldquo;Incorporates some of Dr. Hill&rsquo;s most profound statements yet about the seventeenth-century revolution as a whole.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Economist</i>",
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