Distant strangers : how Britain became modern /

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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vernon, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Colección:Berkeley series in British studies ; 9.
Temas:
Social change > Great Britain > History.
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization, Modern > British influences.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Civilization
Civilization, Modern
Civilization, Modern > British influences
Social change
Great Britain > Civilization.
Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation.
Great Britain
19th century britain.
19th century history.
berkeley series in british studies.
british studies.
concentrated population.
cultural studies.
economic relations.
european history.
great britain.
historians.
historical.
increased mobility.
living among strangers.
modern social condition.
modern world.
modernity.
modernization.
political.
population growth.
queen victoria.
social.
strangers.
the charismatic state.
urbanization.
victorian period.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is modernity?
  • A society of strangers
  • Governing strangers
  • Associating with strangers
  • An economy of strangers.

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