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Distant strangers : how Britain became modern / James Vernon

Author
Vernon, James
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
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Language Note
English.
Contents
What is modernity? -- A society of strangers -- Governing strangers -- Associating with strangers -- An economy of strangers.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9780520957787 (electronic bk.)
0520957784 (electronic bk.)
1306802350 (electronic bk.)
9781306802352 (electronic bk.)
9780520282032 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520282035 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520282049 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520282043 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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