03972nam 2200985 450 991082385540332120230126212012.00-520-95778-410.1525/9780520957787(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 BritainCivilization19th century britain.19th century history.berkeley series in british studies.british studies.concentrated population.cultural studies.economic relations.european history.great britain.historians.historical.increased mobility.living among strangers.modern social condition.modern world.modernity.modernization.political.population growth.queen victoria.social.strangers.the charismatic state.urbanization.victorian period.Social changeHistory.Civilization, Modern.Civilization, ModernBritish influences.941Vernon James1965-1690785MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823855403321Distant strangers4066710UNINA