Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City

'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.