Building Jerusalem

The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City

Tristram Hunt

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English

Penguin
01 October 2019

History; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history; Urban communities; Urban & municipal planning

The ideas and people who inspired and shaped the great Victorian cities, with all their energy, achievements and pride

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.

By: Tristram Hunt
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 422g
ISBN: 9780141990125
ISBN 10: 0141990120
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 01 October 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tristram Hunt is one of Britain's best-known historians. Since 2010 he has been MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, and in October 2013 was made Shadow Secretary of State for Education. He is a senior lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London, and has written numerous series for radio and television. His previous books include Building Jerusalem and The Frock-Coated Communist- The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, published in more than a dozen languages.

Reviews for Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City

The Victorian era was a period of extremes: great wealth and terrible poverty; a massive expansion of cities, generating many splendid buildings, along with hideous urban pollution and a typical life expectancy of under 20 years. With learning, energy, and sophistication, Tristram Hunt draws together a wonderful history of the buildings of that era. I strongly recommend this book. --Richard Rogers