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Marx's general : the revolutionary life of Friedrich Engels

Author:Tristram Hunt

Summary:A remarkable new biography from one of Britain's leading young historians that recovers the co-founder of communism from the shadows of history, portraying how one of the great "bon viveurs" of Victorian Britain reconciled his exuberant personal life with his radical political philosophy

Print Book, English, 2009

Edition:1st ed View all formats and editions

Publisher: Metropolitan Books, New York, 2009

Genre:Biography

Physical Description:xii, 430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

ISBN:

9780805080254, 0805080252

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:263983621

Subjects:

Engels, Friedrich

Engels, Friedrich 1820-1895

Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895

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Marx's general.

Hunt, Tristram, 1974-

Contents:

Siegfried in Zion

The dragon's seed

Manchester in black and white

"A little patience and some terrorism"

The infinitely rich '48 harvest

Manchester in shades of grey

An end to huckstering

The Grand Lama of Regent's Park Road

Marx's bulldog

First fiddle at last

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