LEADER 03160nam 2200697 450 001 9910464723803321 005 20210421193430.0 010 $a0-520-95778-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520957787 035 $a(CKB)3710000000113944 035 $a(EBL)1691118 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001193885 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11704651 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001193885 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11147665 035 $a(PQKB)11738312 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1691118 035 $a(OCoLC)966869124 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse52276 035 $a(DE-B1597)521100 035 $a(OCoLC)880409123 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520957787 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1691118 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10875021 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL611486 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000113944 100 $a20140609h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDistant strangers $ehow Britain became modern /$fJames Vernon 210 1$aBerkeley, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (185 p.) 225 1 $aBerkeley Series in British Studies ;$v9 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-520-28204-3 311 $a0-520-28203-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Figures --$tPreface --$t1. What Is Modernity? --$t2. A Society of Strangers --$t3. Governing Strangers --$t4. Associating with Strangers --$t5. An Economy of Strangers --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aWhat does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in Britain, a place long held to be the crucible of modernity, a new and distinctly modern social condition emerged by the middle of the nineteenth century. Rapid and sustained population growth, combined with increasing mobility of people over greater distances and concentrations of people in cities, created a society of strangers. Vernon explores how individuals in modern societies adapted to live among strangers by forging more abstract and anonymous economic, social, and political relations, as well as by reanimating the local and the personal. 410 0$aBerkeley series in British studies ;$v9. 606 $aSocial change$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aCivilization, Modern 606 $aCivilization, Modern$xBritish influences 607 $aGreat Britain$xCivilization 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocial change$xHistory. 615 0$aCivilization, Modern. 615 0$aCivilization, Modern$xBritish influences. 676 $a941 700 $aVernon$b James$f1965-$01041537 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464723803321 996 $aDistant strangers$92465129 997 $aUNINA