Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (Berkeley Series in British Studies)
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Distant Strangers, How Britain Became Modern (2014)
EN HC NWISBN: 9780520282032 bzw. 0520282035, in Englisch, University Of California, gebundenes Buch, neu.
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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, 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 i..., 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.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 19x229x152 mm;Gewicht: 59,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: juli 2014;ISBN10: 0520282035;ISBN13: 9780520282032; Engelstalig | Hardcover | 2014.
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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, 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 i..., 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.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 19x229x152 mm;Gewicht: 59,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: juli 2014;ISBN10: 0520282035;ISBN13: 9780520282032; Engelstalig | Hardcover | 2014.
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Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (Berkeley Series in British Studies) (2014)
EN HC USISBN: 9780520282032 bzw. 0520282035, in Englisch, University of California Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, zzgl. Versandkosten, Verandgebiet: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books-FYI, ky, cadiz, [RE:5].
No dust jacket with the book. The pages are very nice and clean! Hard cover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books-FYI, ky, cadiz, [RE:5].
No dust jacket with the book. The pages are very nice and clean! Hard cover.
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Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (Berkeley Series in British Studies) (2014)
EN HC USISBN: 9780520282032 bzw. 0520282035, in Englisch, University of California Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, plus shipping, Shipping area: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books-FYI, ky, cadiz, [RE:5].
No dust jacket with the book. The pages are very nice and clean! Hard cover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books-FYI, ky, cadiz, [RE:5].
No dust jacket with the book. The pages are very nice and clean! Hard cover.
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Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (Berkeley Series in British Studies)
EN HC USISBN: 9780520282032 bzw. 0520282035, in Englisch, University of California Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Versandkostenfrei.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Midtown Scholar with FREE U.S. SHIPPING [51735859], Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
0520282035 Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light shelfwear, missing dust jacket and a publisher's mark to one edge - Nice!
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Midtown Scholar with FREE U.S. SHIPPING [51735859], Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
0520282035 Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light shelfwear, missing dust jacket and a publisher's mark to one edge - Nice!
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Distant Strangers – How Britain Became Modern
EN HC NWISBN: 9780520282032 bzw. 0520282035, in Englisch, University of California Press, gebundenes Buch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Grossbritannien und Nordirland, zzgl. Versandkosten, Verandgebiet: EUR.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Paperbackshop International, GLOS, Fairford, [RE:4].
Hardcover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Paperbackshop International, GLOS, Fairford, [RE:4].
Hardcover.
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