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'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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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning Regional & area planning Urban & municipal planning

• Full title: Building Jerusalem
• Author: Tristram Hunt
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592
• EAN: 9780141990125
• ISBN: 0141990120
• ID: 22200521
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 444 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 132 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. September 2019

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