History Written with the Best Commitment A. N. Wilson
This is a story of the ideas that shaped not only London, but also Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield, and other major cities of 19th-century Britain. It records the controversies and visions that promoted Britain's greatest cultural 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 advocated by Pugin and Ruskin, the pride in self-government associated with the Saxons as opposed to the Normans, the identification with the city-republics of the Italian Renaissance - trade, market, and patronage, the shift from cultural to municipal organization with more powers in areas such as health, education, and housing. Finally, at the end of the century, the return from urban to rural ideal, guided by William Morris and the garden city movement of Ebenezer Howard.
Pages: 624, Dimensions: 13x13cm
