03160nam 2200697 450 991046472380332120210421193430.00-520-95778-410.1525/9780520957787(CKB)3710000000113944(EBL)1691118(SSID)ssj0001193885(PQKBManifestationID)11704651(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001193885(PQKBWorkID)11147665(PQKB)11738312(MiAaPQ)EBC1691118(OCoLC)966869124(MdBmJHUP)muse52276(DE-B1597)521100(OCoLC)880409123(DE-B1597)9780520957787(Au-PeEL)EBL1691118(CaPaEBR)ebr10875021(CaONFJC)MIL611486(EXLCZ)99371000000011394420140609h20142014 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrDistant strangers how Britain became modern /James VernonBerkeley, California :University of California Press,2014.©20141 online resource (185 p.)Berkeley Series in British Studies ;9Includes index.0-520-28204-3 0-520-28203-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Figures --Preface --1. What Is Modernity? --2. A Society of Strangers --3. Governing Strangers --4. Associating with Strangers --5. An Economy of Strangers --Conclusion --Notes --IndexWhat does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in Britain, a place long held to be the crucible of modernity, a new and distinctly modern social condition emerged by the middle of the nineteenth century. Rapid and sustained population growth, combined with increasing mobility of people over greater distances and concentrations of people in cities, created a society of strangers. Vernon explores how individuals in modern societies adapted to live among strangers by forging more abstract and anonymous economic, social, and political relations, as well as by reanimating the local and the personal.Berkeley series in British studies ;9.Social changeGreat BritainHistoryCivilization, ModernCivilization, ModernBritish influencesGreat BritainCivilizationElectronic books.Social changeHistory.Civilization, Modern.Civilization, ModernBritish influences.941Vernon James1965-1041537MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464723803321Distant strangers2465129UNINA