Distant strangers : how Britain became modern / / James Vernon

• Autore: Vernon James <1965->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (185 p.)
• Disciplina: 941
• Soggetto topico: Social change - Great Britain - History; Civilization, Modern; Civilization, Modern - British influences
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Civilization
• Soggetto non controllato: 19th 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
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: What 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Distant strangers
• ISBN: 0-520-95778-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786559103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Berkeley series in British studies ; ; 9.