Building Jerusalem
''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, En...
''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, En...
