- Illustrations*
- Maps
- 1. The Rhineland before 1789—‘The Monks’ Corridor’
- 2. The French Occupation of the Rhineland during the Revolution and the Napoleonic Era
- 3. Paris and the Battles of the Franco-Prussian War
- 4. Marx’s London, 1848–1883
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: The Making of an Icon, 1883–1920
- 1. Fathers and Sons: The Ambiguities of Becoming a Prussian
- 2. The Lawyer, the Poet and the Lover
- 3. Berlin and the Approaching Twilight of the Gods
- 4. Rebuilding the Polis: Reason Takes On the Christian State
- 5. The Alliance of Those Who Think and Those Who Suffer: Paris, 1844
- 6. Exile in Brussels, 1845–8
- 7. The Approach of Revolution: The Problem about Germany
- 8. The Mid-Century Revolutions
- 9. London
- 10. The Critique of Political Economy
- 11. Capital, Social Democracy and the International
- 12. Back to the Future
- Epilogue
- Notes and References
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Illustrations
- 1. The young Marx
- 2. Portrait of Jenny Marx, undated
- 3. Karl Marx, editor of the Rheinische Zeitung 1842–3, by Ernst Schaumann
- 4. Heinrich Heine with Jenny and Karl Marx. Drawing, 1848
- 5. Eleanor Marx, at the age of 18, 1873
- 6. Karl Marx’s eldest daughters, Jenny and Laura, c. 1865. Photograph
- 7. Karl Marx and his wife, Jenny, c. 1850s
- 8. Helene Demuth
- 9. Friedrich Engels, 1870
- 10. Moses Hess, 1847
- 11. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
- 12. Pierre Joseph Proudhon
- 13. Dr Andreas Gottschalk, portrait by Wilhelm Kleinenbroich, 1849
- 14. Ferdinand Lassalle, c. 1860
- 15. Dr Eduard Gumpert
- 16. Wilhelm Wolff
- 17. Trier, a view over the river Mosel to Trier. Steel engraving, undated (c. 1850?), by Johann Poppel after a drawing by Ludwig Lange (1808–1868)
- 18. The title page of the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, Paris, 1844
- 19. The bodies of those killed during the February street fighting paraded through Paris. (Engraving by J Gaildrau in a history of France.)
- 20. Session of the Commission des travailleurs, Paris, 1948
- 21. Barricade fighting in Cologne, 1848
- 22. Berlin, 1848, illustration from Carl Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. I (McClure Publishing Co., 1907)
- 23. The Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common, 10 April 1848, from F. Dimond and R. Taylor, Crown & Camera: The Royal Family and Photography 1842–1910 (Harmondsworth, 1987)
- 24. The First Edition of ‘Neue Rheinische Zeitung’ 1 June 1848
- 25. Thibault: The barricade of Saint-Maur-Popincourt 26 June 1848
- 26. Insurgents in custody
- 27. Opening ceremony of the International Exhibition
- 28. William Powell Frith, Ramsgate Sands (Life at the Seaside), 1851–54
- 29. Aftermath of the Commune
- 30. Chinese poster from the Cultural Revolution celebrating the centenary of the Paris Commune