Description
| Product ID: | 9780141990125 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Building Jerusalem |
| Subtitle: | The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City |
| Authors: | Author: Tristram Hunt |
| Page Count: | 624 |
| Subjects: | City and town planning: architectural aspects, City & town planning - architectural aspects, European history, History, Social and cultural history, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, British & Irish history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Social & cultural history, Urban communities, Urban & municipal planning, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating '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. ''History writing at its compulsive best'' A. N. Wilson |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-09-26 |