Hill, Christopher

The Century of Revolution 1603-1714 [English Civil War - Commonwealth Restoration - Glorious Revolution]

London: Cardinal, 1975.

Christopher Hill’s classic one-volume history of seventeenth-century Britain: a clear, provocative account that threads the Stuart monarchy, Civil War, Commonwealth, Restoration, and 1688 through social and economic change. 

The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; even age-toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. 7.75 inches tall; 301 pages with an index.

Hill famously reads the crisis as a struggle between entrenched feudal elites and an ascendant commercial class, while keeping “ordinary” men and women in view alongside kings and parliaments. First published in 1961, it remains a touchstone in English Civil War studies and classical reception debates about Marxist interpretation. 

Subjects: Stuart Britain; English Civil War & Commonwealth; Restoration & Glorious Revolution; Class and economy in 17th-century England; Hill’s Marxist interpretation; British history (early modern); Political & social history; Historiography..

Item #21112
ISBN: 0351167005

Price: $24.00