Tristram Hunt Building Jerusalem (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Building JerusalemCondition: NewEAN: 9780141990125ISBN: 9780141990125Publisher: Penguin Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/26/2019Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 26mmItem Weight: 441gAuthor: Tristram HuntLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian CityISBN-10: 0141990120Description: '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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: HistoryTopic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Architecture & Antiques, Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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