Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modernvolume 9 by Vernon, James

Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern Volume 9 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520282049)

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Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modernvolume 9 by Vernon, James

Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern Volume 9

$24.95
Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modernvolume 9 by Vernon, James

Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern Volume 9

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: James Vernon
ISBN-10: 0520282043
ISBN-13: 9780520282049
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2014
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2014 pg. 690
By James Vernon
By James Vernon
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James Vernon is professor of history at UC Berkeley. He is author or editor of several books including, most recently, Hunger: A Modern History and The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (UCP/GAIA, 2011), and is coeditor of the Berkeley Series in British Studies.

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