{"product_id":"9780141990125","title":"Building Jerusalem : The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City","description":"\u003cp\u003e'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTristram 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48222136238315,"sku":"EB_SS0500_D11-04_SIMS","price":36.38,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780141990125-1.jpg?v=1783847882","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780141990125","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}