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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 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.
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В книге «Далекие чужие» Джеймс Вернон утверждает, что мир стал современным не благодаря революции, индустриализации или Просвещению. Вместо этого он показывает, как в Великобритании к середине XIX века возникло новое, отчетливо современное социальное состояние. Быстрый и устойчивый рост населения в сочетании с растущей мобильност&#
A propos de l'auteur
ENGJames Vernon is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include
Politics and the People (1993),
Hunger. A Modern History (2007),
Distant Strangers. How Britain Became Modern (2014), and the last volume of the Cambridge History of Britain,
Britain since 1750 to the Present (2017). He is editor of
Rereading the Constitution (1996) and 'The Berkeley Series in British Studies' with University of California Press, as well as co-editor (with Simon Gunn) of
The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (2011) and (with Colleen Lye and Christopher Newfield) "The Humanities and the Crisis of the Public University" in Representations (2011). His work has been supported by the British Academy, the ESRC, the ACLS, the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is currently writing a book about the racialized and globalized formation of neoliberalism in Britain after empire told though Heathrow Airport.
RUSДжеймс Вернон -- заслуженный профессор истории Хелен Фосетт в Калифорнийском университете в Беркли. Автор книг
Politics and the People, Hunger: A Modern History, Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern и одного из томов серии
Cambridge History of Britain. В настоящий момент работает над книгой о формировании неолиберализма в Британии на примере истории аэропорта Хитроу.
Résumé
ENGWhat 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.
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В книге «Далекие чужие» Джеймс Вернон утверждает, что мир стал современным не благодаря революции, индустриализации или Просвещению. Вместо этого он показывает, как в Великобритании к середине XIX века возникло новое, отчетливо современное социальное состояние. Быстрый и устойчивый рост населения в сочетании с растущей мобильностью людей и их концентрацией в городах создали общество чужаков. Вернон исследует, как люди в современных обществах приспосабливались к жизни среди чужих, формируя более абстрактные и анонимные экономические, социальные и политические отношения, а также возрождая локальное и личное.
