In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the internal
migration of a growing population transformed Britain into a
'society of strangers'. The coming and going of so many people
wreaked havoc on the institutions through which Britons had
previously addressed questions of collective responsibility. Poor
relief, charity briefs, box clubs, and the like relied on personal
knowledge of reputations for their effectiveness and struggled to
accommodate the increasing number of unknown migrants. Trust among
Strangers re-centers problems of trust in the making of modern
Britain and examines the ways in which upper-class reformers and
working-class laborers fashioned and refashioned the concept and
practice of friendly society to make promises of collective
responsibility effective - even among strangers. The result is a
profoundly new account of how Britons navigated their way into the
modern world.
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