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Distant Strangers - How Britain Became Modern (Paperback)
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Distant Strangers - How Britain Became Modern (Paperback)
Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies, 9
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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.
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