Building Jerusalem - Tristram Hunt
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City
KORTE INHOUD
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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Dikke paperback, wat leesvouwen in rug, in goede staat. Engelstalig.; 2005; First Phoenix Edition; Phoenix; xx, 572 pagina's; Titel: Building Jerusalem. The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City; Ref: 227564 / H24P805B
