The Frock-Coated Communist
€ 21,70
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780141021409 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Tristram Hunt |
| Editora | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 464 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,342 |
| Data de Publicação | 29/04/2010 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 20,47 |
| Imposto | € 1,23 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 21,70 |
| Disponibilidade | 4 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
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.