Building Jerusalem

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780141990125 Author(s): Tristram Hunt Format: Paperback Illustrator: Naresh Kumar Language: English Year: 2019 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Pages: 624

Description: The ideas and people who inspired and shaped the great Victorian cities, with all their energy, achievements and prideThis 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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