Description
| Product ID: | 9780141021409 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Frock-Coated Communist |
| Subtitle: | The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels |
| Authors: | Author: Tristram Hunt |
| Page Count: | 464 |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, Social and political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Social & political philosophy, Marxism & Communism, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-04-29 |
