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Building Jerusalem
- The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City
Engelsk Paperback
Building Jerusalem
- The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City
Engelsk Paperback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
624
ISBN-13:
9780141990125
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0141990120
Udg. Dato:
26 sep 2019
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
132mm
Højde:
196mm
Forlag:
Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
26 sep 2019
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