Join Sparks oh History with
Professor Jonathan Sperber
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (Liveright Publishing, 2013)
2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography
'absorbing, meticulously researched biography' – New York Times
Curator Professor Emeritus of History, University of Missouri
Member, German Studies Association
Member, American Historical Association
Selected works
• Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
• The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany
• Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850
• The European Revolutions, 1848-1851
#5 Marx: Prophet of the Future?
• Tend to view Marx in contemporary terms
• Far seeing prophet
• Predictor of future economic collapses
• Or devil who led to Stalin and Mao
• Marx was product of French Revolution
• And of Industrial Revolution
• Needs to be understood as 19th century figure
