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Distant strangers : how Britain became modern / / James Vernon



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Autore: Vernon James <1965-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Distant strangers : how Britain became modern / / James Vernon Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95778-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786559103321
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Serie: Berkeley series in British studies ; ; 9.