Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City
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- Synopsis
- 'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies and visions that fostered Britain's greatest civic renaissance.Tristram Hunt explores the horrors of the Victorian city, as seen by Dickens, Engels and Carlyle; the influence of the medieval Gothic ideal of faith, community and order espoused by Pugin and Ruskin; the pride in self-government, identified with the Saxons as opposed to the Normans; the identification with the city republics of the Italian renaissance - commerce, trade and patronage; the change from the civic to the municipal, and greater powers over health, education and housing; and finally at the end of the century, the retreat from the urban to the rural ideal, led by William Morris and the garden-city movement of Ebenezer Howard.
- Copyright:
- 2004
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780141990132
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780141990125
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Date of Addition:
- 10/31/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Tristram Hunt
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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