Distant Strangers

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<b>ENG</b><p><span>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 <i>Distant Strangers</i> 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.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>RUS</b></p><p><span>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 абстрак&#109
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