The Frock-Coated Communist : The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels EPUB
by Tristram Hunt
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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.
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- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:30/04/2009
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- ISBN:9780141926865
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:30/04/2009
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- ISBN:9780141926865