Building Jerusalem by Tristram Hunt

Building Jerusalem by Tristram Hunt

The ideas and people who inspired and shaped the great Victorian cities, with all their energy, achievements and pride 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.

this is an enthralling history of the urban world of the 1800s-- Sally Cousins * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (19.6.05) *

Professor Tristram Hunt is a lecturer in history at Queen Mary, University of London. Previously, he was an associate fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge, and research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Educated at Cambridge and Chicago Universities, he has worked as a government adviser. As well as authoring a number of BBC television programmes, he is a regular contributor to the Guardian, The Times and The Observer.

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ISBN 13	9780753819838
ISBN 10	075381983X
Title	Building Jerusalem
Author	Tristram Hunt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2005-06-02
Number of pages	624
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