The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

161 pp. "This study of the events leading to the coup d'etat of "Napolean the Little" on December 2, 1851, written within a few weeks after the coup, is one of the first works by Marx, in which he states his theory of history. It has become a classic object lesson in applied historical materialism. It was first published in the United States, in German, in 1852. The present translation is based on the German edition of 1869, which was corrected by Marx. It is supplied with explanatory notes and an index."