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[...]

This is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies and visions that fostered Britain's greatest civic renaissance. Tristram Hunt explores the horrors [...]

An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wakeAt its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand as the e[...]

Friedrich Engels föddes i en välmående handelsfamilj i Tyskland och njöt av den bekymmersfria tillvaron som viktoriansk gentleman. Samtidigt skrev han Kommunistiska manifestet tillsammans med Karl Marx, var en hänsynslös partitaktiker och offrade sina pengar och bästa år för att Marx skull[...]