pThis edited volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of Friedrich Engels as much more than junior partner to Karl Marx or second fiddle in the Marxist orchestra. The nineteen critical essays in this collection are the work of scholars from Germany, USA, UK, Italy, China, India, Mexico and the Philippines. Together they present and evaluate archival material and scholarly commentary that covers epistemology, political economy, political theory, gender studies, cultural studies, political geography, philosophy of social science and sociological studies of class-conflict. Students, activists and specialists will find fresh consideration of familiar works, such as iThe Condition of the Working Class in England, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and The Dialectics of Nature. iThey will also be able to explore Engels's less familiar pamphleteering, literary criticism and political commentary through detailed contextualization and careful ana