# Building Jerusalem

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/tristram-hunt/building-jerusalem

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/tristram-hunt/building-jerusalem.json

![Building Jerusalem](https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin/tristram-hunt/building-jerusalem_978-01-4199-013-2.jpg?v=2026-04-24%2006%3A49%3A55)

- Authors: [Tristram Hunt](https://www.bookquiver.com/tristram-hunt)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2019-09-26

## Description

'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.

## Editions

### Building Jerusalem

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-012-5
- Pages: 624
- Published: 2019-09-26
- Language: en_GB

### Building Jerusalem

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-013-2
- Published: 2019-09-26
- Language: en_GB