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Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern
James Vernon
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Paperback. 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? This book argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages, 11 b/w images, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Berkeley Series in British Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520282049
SKU
V9780520282049
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About James Vernon
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.
Reviews for Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern
"Commands-and deserves to command-the attention of scholars."
Martin Hewitt American Historical Review "This is a project of great scope and ambition... [Vernon's] book ought to enthuse, stimulate, provoke." Journal of Modern History
Martin Hewitt American Historical Review "This is a project of great scope and ambition... [Vernon's] book ought to enthuse, stimulate, provoke." Journal of Modern History