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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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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.
Subject
  • Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895
  • Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895
  • Engels, Friedrich 1820-1895
  • Engels, Friedrich
  • 1800-1899
  • Germans > Great Britain > Biography
  • Communists > Great Britain > Biography
  • Communism > History > 19th century
  • Communism
  • Communists
  • Germans
  • Comunisme > Història > S. XIX
  • Great Britain
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