The Frock-Coated Communist
Author(s): Tristram Hunt
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' era: how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his raucous personal life with this uncompromising political philosophy.
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Beautifully written and consistently engaging Independent An excellent book ... Hunt has a mastery of 19th-century British culture and European political thought -- Robert Service Sunday Times Thoughtful and engaging Telegraph Review
Dr Tristram Hunt is one of Britain's best known young historians. Educated at Cambridge and Chicago Universities, he is lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London and author of 'Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City.' A leading historical broadcaster, he has authored numerous series for BBC Radio and Television and Channel 4. He is also a regular contributor to The Times, The Guardian and The Observer.
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.342
- : 01 April 2010
- : 198mm X 129mm X 21mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Tristram Hunt
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 335.4092
- : 480