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xvi, 432 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm "'It was a town of red brick, or of brick which would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever and never got uncoiled.'" "Since Charles Dickens first described Coketown, the Victorian city has been an object of derision: a byword for deprivation, criminality, and pollution. Born of the industrial revolution, the nineteenth-century city is still depicted as a monstrous landscape of factories, beggars and disease." "Yet, as Tristram Hunt argues in his history, the urban world of the 1800s was far more than an unthinking industrial sprawl. It was the subject of passionate debates which inspired the great civic edifices that still dominate Britain's streets: the town halls, city squares, parish churches, local schools, the very sewers beneath our feet." "Beginning with the horrors of the industrial city witnessed by Dickens and Engels, Tristram Hunt explores the energy, achievements and unbridled prid

Author

Hunt, Tristram, 1974-

Publisher

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ); Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780753819838

Subjects

Social Science, History, Social_sciences