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Distant Strangers : How Britain Became Modern /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- What is modernity?
- A society of strangers
- Governing strangers
- Associating with strangers
- An economy of strangers.