HILL CHRISTOPHER

Η ΕΞΩΤΕΡΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΤΟΝ 21ο ΑΙΩΝΑ
Η εξωτερική πολιτική αφορά το πώς αλληλεπιδρούν διαφορετικές κοινωνίες, άλλοτε ανταγωνιζόμενες μεταξύ τους και άλλοτε επιτυγχάνοντας να αναπτύξουν μια συνεργασία σε τακτική βάση. Καλείται να διαχειριστεί τη συνεχή διελκυστίνδα μεταξύ, αφενός, του κράτους, που επιδιώκει να διατηρήσει την ανεξαρτησία του και την αυτοτέλεια της δράσης του και να προωθήσει τα συμφέροντά του, και, αφετέρου, του άμεσου και ευρύτερου εξωτερικού του περιβάλλοντος, που θέτει διαρκώς όρια στη δράση του κράτους. Το βιβλίο του Κρίστοφερ Χιλ πραγματεύεται το θέμα σε όλ...
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Ο ΑΙΩΝΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΗΣ 1603-1714
Τα όσα διαδραματίστηκαν στη Μεγάλη Βρετανία από το 1603 έως και το 1714 ήταν καθοριστικά στην ιστορία -από την εξέλιξη και τους εμφυλίους πολέμους ως τις δημοκρατικές θεωρίες και τις επιστημονικές καινοτομίες- και επηρέασαν καταλυτικά όλο τον κόσμο, και ειδικά τη Βόρεια Αμερική. Κατά κοινή ομολογία ο Christopher Hill υπερέχει και διαφοροποιείται από τους ιστορικούς της περιόδου. Υποστήριζε πάντα ότι Ιστορία δεν είναι η αφήγηση γεγονότων, επομένως το καθήκον του ιστορικού είναι να εξηγεί τι συνέβη. Έτσι, στο βιβλίο αυτό διεισδύει με επιτυχί...
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(P/B) THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
In 'The World Turned Upside Down' 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. The relations between rich and poor classes, the part played by wandering 'masterless' men, the outbursts of sexual freedom, the great imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan - these and many other elements build up into a marvellously detailed and coherent portrait of this strange, sudden effusion of revolutionary beliefs. (From...
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(P/B) PURITANISM AND REVOLUTION
This illuminating collection of essays assesses the seventeenth century, interpreting what used to be called 'The Puritan Revolution', the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and the relation between these ideas and the political and economic events of the day. Each essay approaches the subject from a different angle, looking at aspects of the revolution - whether religious, constitutional, economic or biographical - in conjunction with a lively sympathy for the men who lived in that revolutionary time. Analysing the wri...
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(P/B) GOD'S ENGLISHMAN
A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts: fenland farmer and humble backbencher; stalwart of the good old cause and the New Model Army; key figure of the Commonwealth; and finally Lord Protector. Hill leads the reader unsentimentally through Cromwell's life from his beginnings in Huntingdonshire to his brutal end. Hill brings all his considerable knowledge of the period to bear on the relationships God's Englishman had with God and England. Such a detailed understanding of the workings of p...
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(P/B) MILTON AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician, poet, and religious thinker. The result is a Milton very different from most popular representations: instead of a gloomy, sexless "Puritan", we have a dashingly thinker, branded with the contemporary reputation of a libertine. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) LIBERTY AGAINST THE LAW
In this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christopher Hill uses the literary culture of the seventeenth century to explore the immense social changes of the period as well as the expressions of liberty, the law and the hero-worship of the outlaw defiance. As well as chapters on gypsies and vagabonds, Hill analyzes class, religion and the shift away from the importance of the church after the Reformation. Liberty against the Law is a late classic of Hill's work and essential reading f...
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(P/B) REFORMATION TO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
In 1530 England was a backward economy, yet by 1780 she possessed a world empire and was just about to become the first industrialized power in the world. This book deals with the intervening 250 years, and tries to explain how England won her unique position in the world. This is a story that opens with the break with Europe and charts the tumultuous period of war, revolutions, and the cultural and scientific flowering that made up the early modern period. Yet, during this period Britain also become the home to imperial ambitions and eco...
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(P/B) SOCIETY AND PURITANISM IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY ENGLAND
In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. In this classic work of social history, Professor Hill shows Puritanism as a living faith, one that responded to social as well as religious needs. It was a set of beliefs that answered the hopes and fears of yeomen and gentlemen, merchants and artisans in the tribulations of early modern Britain, a time of extraordinary turbulence. Over this period, Puritanism, he shows, was interwoven into daily life. He looks at how rituals such as oath-taking,...
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(P/B) THE CENTURY OF REVOLUTION
There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the best concise history of the period, Century of Revolution. Stimulating, vivid and provocative, his graphic depiction of the turbulent era examines ordinary English men and women as well as kings and queens. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE CHANGING POLITICS OF FOREIGN POLICY

(P/B) CABINET DECISIONS ON FOREIGN POLICY: THE BRITISH EXPERIENC

(H/B) THE CENTURY OF REVOLUTION