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| Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 26Engels 1882 - 1889
Engels, Friedrichhttp://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/marx/works/cw/volume26/index.htm http://marx.libcom.org/works/cw/volume26/index.htm
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 Publisher:  Progress Publishers
 Year Published:  1889
 ISBN:  5-01-001088-7
 Resource Type:  Book
 
 Includes Manuscripts on Early German History and The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, and The Role of Force in History
 
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 Table of Contents
 
 Frederick Engels
 1882-89
 
 1882
 August
 
 
 Manuscripts on Early German History
 On the Early History of the Germans	6
 
 Caesar and Tacitus
 6
 
 The First Battles Against Rome
 19
 
 Progress Until the Migration Period
 33
 
 Note: The German Peoples
 44
 The Frankish Period	58
 
 The Radical Transformation of the Relations of Landownership under the Merovingians and Carolingians
 58
 
 The District and Army Structure
 71
 
 Note: The Franconian Dialect
 81
 1883
 May
 Georg Weerth	108
 June
 The Book of Revelation	112
 Preface to the 1883 German Edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party 	118
 1884
 March
 Marx and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-49)	120
 April-May
 The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. In the Light of the Researches by Lewis H. Morgan	129
 Preface to the First Edition	131
 
 I. Prehistoric Stages of Culture
 134
 
 1. Savagery
 134
 
 2. Barbarism
 136
 
 II. The Family
 139
 
 III. The Iroquois Gens
 190
 
 IV. The Grecian Gens
 204
 
 V. The Emergence of the Athenian State
 213
 
 VI. The Gens and the State in Rome
 222
 
 VII. The Gens Among the Celts and Germans
 232
 
 VIII. The Formation of the State Among the Germans
 245
 
 IX. Barbarism and Civilisation
 256
 June
 Introductory Note to the Separate 1884 Edition of Marx's Wage Labour and Capital	277
 October
 Marx and Rodbertus. Preface to the First German Edition of The Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx	278
 1885
 January
 Real Imperial Russian Privy Dynamiters 	292
 February
 England in 1845 and in 1885	295
 Preface to the Third German Edition of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Marx	302
 July
 Preface to the Pamphlet Karl Marx Before the Cologne Jury	304
 August
 To the Editors of the Sererny Vestnik 	311
 October
 On the History of the Communist League	312
 The Situation	331
 To the Editorial Committee of Le Socialiste 	333
 How Not to Translate Marx	335
 November
 On the History of the Prussian Peasants. Introduction to Wilhelm Wolff's Pamphlet The Silesian Milliard	341
 1886
 Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy	353
 
 I
 357
 
 II
 365
 
 III
 374
 
 IV
 381
 February
 Appendix to the American Edition of The Condition of the Working Class in England	399
 March
 On the Anniversary of the Paris Commune 	406
 April
 A Statement to the Editorial Board of the New Yorker Volkszeitung	408
 May
 On the Strike at a Glass-Works in Lyons	409
 October
 The Political Situation in Europe 	410
 December
 Johann Philipp Becker	418
 1887
 January
 Preface to the Second Edition of The Housing Question	424
 The Labor Movement in America. Preface to the American Edition of The Condition of the Working Class in England	434
 February
 Letter to the Organising Committee of the International Festival in Paris	443
 March
 To the Federation of the Centre of the French Workers' Party	445
 December
 Introduction to Sigismund Borkheim's Pamphlet, In Memory of the German Blood-and-Thunder Patriots. 1806-1807	446
 The Role of Force in History	453
 Rough Draft of the Preface to The Role of Force in History	511
 1888
 January
 Preface to 1888 English Edition of Manifesto of the Communist Party	512
 February
 Preface to the Pamphlet Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy	519
 April
 Protection and Free Trade. Preface to the Pamphlet: Karl Marx, Speech on the Question of Free Trade	521
 1889
 April
 Letter to the Editors of The Labour Elector	537
 May
 The Ruhr Miners' Strike of 1889	539
 August
 Possibilist Credentials	542
 Apropos of the London Dockers' Strike	545
 September
 The Abdication of the Bourgeoisie	546
 
 
 From the Preparatory Materials
 1884
 On the Association of the Future	553
 On the Peasant War	554
 On the Decline of Feudalism and the Emergence of National States	556
 1886
 August
 Chartist Agitation 	566
 1888
 Plan of Chapter Four of the Pamphlet The Role of Force in History	578
 Plan of the Final Section of Chapter Four of the Pamphlet The Role of Force in History	579
 Notes on My Journey Through America and Canada	581
 Impressions of a Journey Round America 	584
 
 
 Appendices
 1883
 To the Editors of To-Day 	589
 From Hermann Lopatin's Letter to Maria Oshanina	591
 1885
 The Insurrection of May 1849 	594
 1886
 Lawyers' Socialism	597
 1887
 To the Editors of the New Yorker Volkszeitung 	617
 Engels' Amendments to the Programme of the North of England Socialist Federation 	619
 1888
 To the Editor of Justice 	623
 Interview Given by Frederick Engels to the New Yorker Volkszeitung	626
 
 
 Notes and Indexes
 Notes 	631
 Name Index 	699
 Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature 	730
 Index of Periodicals 	747
 Subject Index 	751
 Glossary of Geographical Names 	767
 
 
 Illustrations
 Map of German Settlement According to Engels' "On the Early History of the Germans" 	51
 Page 17 of Engels' manuscript "The Frankish Period" 	69
 Map of German Dialects According to Engels' "The Franconian Dialect" 	94-95
 Cover of the first edition of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 	130-31
 Title page of the fourth edition of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 	257
 Title page of Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy	355
 A page of the manuscript of The Role of Force in History 	467
 Title page of the English edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party	513
 Programme of the North of England Socialist Federation with Engels' amendments	621
 
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