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Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt
Category: History
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 t ...Show more
CITIES OF EMPIRE THE BRITISH COLONIES AND THE CREATION OF THE URBAN WORLD by HUNT TRISTRAM
Category: REM History
An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wakeAt its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand as the econo ...Show more
Ten Cities That Made an Empire by Tristram Hunt
Category: History
From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised itSince the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and the end days of Empire, Britain's co ...Show more
Ten Cities That Made an Empire by Tristram Hunt
Category: History
From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised it. Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and the end days of Empire, Britain's ...Show more
The Frock-Coated Communist by Tristram Hunt
Category: Biography Memoir
Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a V ...Show more
The Frock-coated Communist : The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
Category: Biography
Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a V ...Show more
The Lives of Objects by Tristram Hunt (Editor)
Category: Home and Garden
In this intriguing insight into the work and history of a museum, V&A director and historian Dr Tristram Hunt brings together ten renowned V&A curators to tell the stories behind ten of their most treasured objects. 'Tipu's Tiger' (an almost life-size wooden semiautomaton mauling a European sold ...Show more
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels; Tristram Hunt (Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Engels composed Origin, published in 1884, from notes he and Marx had made from their reading of the anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan's Ancient Society, or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery Through Barbarism to Civilization (1877). Regarding Morgan, Engels says, "in his own way he ...Show more
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt
Category: Biography
A spectacular new biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, by the Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns and workshops in S ...Show more
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt
Category: Art and Design
A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns ...Show more
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