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Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern

Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern

Vernon, James
Volkova, Elisaveta

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary European Studies

General SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN13: 9798887196114
Publisher: Bibliorossica
Published: Jun 4 2024
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Russian
ENG

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.

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