| Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern Volume 9 First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Vernon, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520282035 ISBN-13: 9780520282032 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 941 |
| LCCN: 2013045356 |
| Series: Berkeley British Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.83 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |