Description
In this meticulously researched, award-winning book, James Holstun details seventeenth-century England's first capitalist revolution, and its first anti-capitalist revolutions, in a stirring project of Marxist history from below.
"A work brimming with intelligence." -Chris Fitter, Rutgers University
About the Author
James Holstun is the author of Rational Millennium: Puritan Utopias of Seventeenth-Century England and America and the editor of Pamphlet Wars: Prose in the English Revolution. He is Professor of English at the State University of New York, Buffalo.
Reviews
This remarkable book offers both a passionate engagement with the concrete processes of political struggle in the English Revolution and a powerful critique of current theoretical models in historiography and literary theory. Intellectually alive from start to finish, Holstun's book captures the polemical energy of the early modern radicals he discusses. -- David Norbrook, Merton Chair of Literature, Oxford University
Thoroughly thought-provoking. * History *
Ehud's Dagger brings the events of the Civil War period and the ordinary people who made them to life. * Observer *
An examination of radical projects which demonstrate the practical contribution of working people to the 1650s. * History Today *
Powerfully cogent, often brilliant in its stylistic sophistication, and magisterial in the range of its scholarship ... A work brimming with intelligence. -- Chris Fitter, Rutgers University
An intense, thoroughly researched new Marxist study of the English Revolution. * Choice *
As an antidote to the distortions of revisionism and as an expression of the continuing vitality of Marxist historiography, Ehud's Dagger is particularly welcome. Three cheers for it! * Albion *
Holstun writes with a meticulous attention to historical detail, evoking the sense of peering into the past through a window in time. * Reviewer's Bookwatch *
Book Information
ISBN 9781859844076
Author James Holstun
Format Paperback
Page Count 480
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 716g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 145mm * 36mm
"A work brimming with intelligence." -Chris Fitter, Rutgers University
About the Author
James Holstun is the author of Rational Millennium: Puritan Utopias of Seventeenth-Century England and America and the editor of Pamphlet Wars: Prose in the English Revolution. He is Professor of English at the State University of New York, Buffalo.
Reviews
This remarkable book offers both a passionate engagement with the concrete processes of political struggle in the English Revolution and a powerful critique of current theoretical models in historiography and literary theory. Intellectually alive from start to finish, Holstun's book captures the polemical energy of the early modern radicals he discusses. -- David Norbrook, Merton Chair of Literature, Oxford University
Thoroughly thought-provoking. * History *
Ehud's Dagger brings the events of the Civil War period and the ordinary people who made them to life. * Observer *
An examination of radical projects which demonstrate the practical contribution of working people to the 1650s. * History Today *
Powerfully cogent, often brilliant in its stylistic sophistication, and magisterial in the range of its scholarship ... A work brimming with intelligence. -- Chris Fitter, Rutgers University
An intense, thoroughly researched new Marxist study of the English Revolution. * Choice *
As an antidote to the distortions of revisionism and as an expression of the continuing vitality of Marxist historiography, Ehud's Dagger is particularly welcome. Three cheers for it! * Albion *
Holstun writes with a meticulous attention to historical detail, evoking the sense of peering into the past through a window in time. * Reviewer's Bookwatch *
Book Information
ISBN 9781859844076
Author James Holstun
Format Paperback
Page Count 480
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 716g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 145mm * 36mm
