Distant Strangers - How Britain Became Modern

1. Auflage, 1
ISBN: 978-0-520-28203-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 184 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 412 g

Reihe: Berkeley Series in British Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vernon, Nicholas James

Vernon, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Demographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

1 What Is Modernity?

2 A Society of Strangers

3 Governing Strangers

4 Associating with Strangers

5 An Economy of Strangers

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.