Building Jerusalem

Building Jerusalem
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9780141990132
ISBN-13 : 0141990139
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Book Synopsis Building Jerusalem by : Tristram Hunt

Download or read book Building Jerusalem written by Tristram Hunt and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.


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