Building Jerusalem
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis 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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2019-09-26
- Mått130 x 198 x 28 mm
- Vikt424 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor624
- FörlagPenguin Books Ltd
- ISBN9780141990125