Building Jerusalem : the rise and fall of the Victorian city / Tristram Hunt.
2005
HT133 .H86 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Building Jerusalem : the rise and fall of the Victorian city / Tristram Hunt.
Author
Hunt, Tristram, 1974-
ISBN
080508259X (pbk.)
9780805082593 (pbk.)
0805080260
9780805080261
9780805082593 (pbk.)
0805080260
9780805080261
Publication Details
New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., c2005.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 576 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
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HT133 .H86 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.76/0941/09034
Summary
From Manchester's deadly cotton works to London's literary salons, an exploration of how the Victorians created the modern city. Since Dickens first described Coketown in Hard Times, the nineteenth-century city, born of the industrial revolution, has been a byword for deprivation, pollution, and criminality. Yet, as historian Hunt argues, the Coketowns of the 1800s were far more than a monstrous landscape of factories and tenements. Hunt shows how the Victorians translated their energy and ambition into a grand vision of the utopian city on a hill. He surveys the great civic creations, from town halls to city squares, sidewalks, and even sewers, to reveal a story of middle-class power and prosperity and the liberating mission of city life. The Victorians worked to turn even the smokestacks of Manchester and Birmingham into sites of freedom and art. And they succeeded--until twentieth-century decline transformed wealthy metropolises into dangerous inner cities.--From publisher description.
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Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-551) and index.
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