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Building Jerusalem - The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City (Paperback)
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Building Jerusalem - The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City (Paperback)
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List price R523
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Discovery Miles 4 770
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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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