Holstun here reconstructs five radical projects of 17th-century England in a development of Marxist "history from below". Subjects covered include: John Felton, assassin of the Duke of Buckinghamshire; the soldiers of the Puritan New Model Army; and the Fifth Monarchist visionary Anna Trapnel.
Winner of the 2001 Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize: Holstun details seventeenth-century England's first capitalist revolution and its first anti-capitalist revolutions in a stirring project of Marxist history from below.
