Christopher Hill - The Life of a Radical Historian

A luminous biography of one of the last century’s most influential historians

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface

1 Methodism, Modernism, Marxism and the Crisis of Bourgeois Culture: 1912–36
2 Academic Life, Communism and the Authentic Self: 1936–40
3 Fighting the Wrong War: 1939–45
4 Cold War, Marxism and the British Past: 1945–53
5 Personal and Political Crises: 1953–7
6 Science, Radicalism, Revolution and Progress: 1957–65
7 Master of Balliol and Modernisation in British Universities: 1965–9
8 Youth Culture and Student Rebellion: 1969–78
9 Retirement, Revisionism and the Experience of Defeat: 1978–2003
10 The Past and the Present

Acknowledgements
A Note on Citations
Notes
Index

About the author

Michael Braddick is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, having previously worked at the University of Sheffield. He has held academic positions and visiting Fellowships in the United States, Australia, France, and Germany. He has written extensively on state formation, the English Revolution and political engagement and agency in early modern England, Ireland and the British Atlantic. His books include The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution, God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars, and A Useful History of Britain: The Politics of Getting Things Done.

Summary

A luminous biography of one of the last century's most influential historians

Product details

• Authors: Michael Braddick, Braddick Michael
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2025
• EAN: 9781839760778
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-077-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; History, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Historiography, Archaeology, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Biography: writers, History and Archaeology