Tristram Hunt is the author of Marx’s General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels and Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City. One of Britain’s leading young historians, he writes regularly for The Guardian, The Observer, and The Times, and has broadcast numerous series for the BBC. A lecturer in history at the University of London, Hunt represents Stoke-on-Trent in the British Parliament, where he serves as the education spokesman for the Labour Party.
Books in order of publication:
Gendered Colonialisms in African History – 1997
Sources of the Making of the West, Volume I: To 1740: Peoples and Cultures, a Concise History – 2002
Making of the West Vol. 2 and Sources and Louis XIV & Absolutism and The Communist Manifesto and Candide – 2002
The English Civil War: At First Hand – 2003
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City – 2004
Marx’s General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels – 2009
Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World – 2014
The Lives of Objects – 2020
The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood – 2021
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