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The frock-coated communist : the revolutionary life of Friedrich Engels
- Title
- The frock-coated communist : the revolutionary life of Friedrich Engels / Tristram Hunt.
- Author
- Hunt, Tristram, 1974-
- Publication
- London : Allen Lane, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HX244.7.E64 H86 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 442 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman. Yet Engels was also the co-founder of international communism - the philosophy which in the 20th century came to control one third of the human race. He was the co-author of The Communist Manifesto, a ruthless party tactician, and the man who sacrificed his best years so Karl Marx could write Das Kapital. Tristram Hunt relishes the diversity and exuberance of Engels's era: how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his raucous personal life with this uncompromising political philosophy. Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Europe and industrializing England - of Manchester mills, Paris barricades, and East End strikes - it is a story of devoted friendship, class compromise, ideological struggle, and family betrayal.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-416) and index.
- Contents
- Map: Central Europe, 1815-66 -- 1. Siegfried in Zion -- 2. Dragon's Seed -- 3. Manchester in Black and White -- 4. 'A Little Patience and Some Terrorism' -- 5. Infinitely Rich '48 Harvest -- 6. Manchester in Shades of Grey -- 7. 'The Grand Lama of the Regent's Park Road' -- 8. Marx's Bulldog -- 9. First Fiddle.
- ISBN
- 9780713998528
- 0713998520
- OCLC
- ocn298597985
- 298597985
- SCSB-14693813
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library