Building Jerusalem
ISBN: 9780141990125
Author : Tristram Hunt
Published: 2019
Publisher: Penguin
Number of pages: 592
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 198×130
Author : Tristram Hunt
Published: 2019
Publisher: Penguin
Number of pages: 592
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 198×130
Description
'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.
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