@article{931638,
      recid = {931638},
      author = {Carver, Terrell.},
      title = {Engels before Marx /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2020},
      abstract = {This book examines the life and works of Friedrich Engels  during the decade before he entered a political partnership  with Karl Marx. It takes a thematic approach in three  substantial chapters: Imagination, Observation, and  Vocation. Throughout, the reader sees the world from  Engelss perspective, not knowing how his story will turn  out. This approach reveals the multifaceted and ambitious  character of young Friedrichs achievements from age sixteen  till just turning twenty-five. At the time that he accepted  Marxs invitation to co-author a short political satire,  Engels was far better known and much more accomplished. He  had published many more articles on far more subjects, in  both German and English, than Marx had managed. Moreover,  he had written a critique of political economy from a  perspective unique in the German context, and published his  own pioneering and substantial study of working class  conditions in an industrializing economy. Offering an  innovative approach to a largely neglected period of  Engelss life before meeting Marx, Carver upends standard  narratives in existing biographical studies of Engels to  reveal him as an important figure not just in relation to  his more famous collaborator, but a key voice in the  liberal-democratic, constitutional and nation-building  revolutionism of the 1830s and 1840s. Terrell Carver is a  Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol,  UK.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/931638},
}