Building Jerusalem
'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.
| Autor: | Hunt, Tristram |
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| EAN: | 9780141990125 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 624 |
| Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
| Verlag: | Penguin Penguin Books UK |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 21.11.2019 |
| Untertitel: | The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City |
| Schlagworte: | Jerusalem, Geschichte |
| Größe: | 198 × 129 |
| Gewicht: | 444 g |
