The Frock-Coated Communist - The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2010
Authors:	Tristram Hunt
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	442
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-102140-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > Biography > Historical, political & military Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	0-14-102140-3
Barcode:	9780141021409

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