Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City
Book formats
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Book short specifications
- Author
- Tristram Hunt
- Pages
- 592
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Language
- english
- Release date
- September 26, 2019
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-199012-5
- GTIN
- 9780141990125
- Weight, g
- 441
About
'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. Wilson
This 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.