Gareth Stedman Jones: 4 books

In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed bringing poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States, political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and Antoine-Nicolas Condorcet argued that all citizens...

Uniek boek over de aartsvader van het communisme De 19de eeuw was een periode van ongekende veranderingen. Intellectueel, sociaal, economisch, religieus, technologisch – de uitdagingen waren groter dan ooit. Afstanden werden kleiner, steden groeiden en de nieuwe fabrieken leverden een golf van uitvindingen...

Gareth Stedman Jones returns Karl Marx to his nineteenth-century world, before later inventions transformed him into Communism’s patriarch and fierce lawgiver. He shows how Marx adapted the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, and others into ideas that would have—in ways inconceivable to Marx—an overwhelming impact in the twentieth century.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of “outcast London.” Gareth Stedman Jones, working from a mass of statistical and documentary evidence, argues that after 1850 London passed through a crisis of social and...