James Vernon is professor of history at UC Berkeley. He is author or editor of several books including, most recently, Hunger: A Modern History and The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (UCP/GAIA, 2011), and is coeditor of the Berkeley Series in British Studies.
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.
發表於2025-02-26
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現代性的起源一直是個謎。雖然人所共知英國是最早通過工業革命實現現代化的國傢,但它是怎麼做到這一點的則眾說紛紜,粗略統計下大概不下數十種之多。傳統觀點強調英格蘭率先運用水力和紡織機、蒸汽機的發明而轉嚮能源-技術-資本密集;有些學者則強調英國式自由主義理念與新教...
評分什麼是現代國傢?一個國傢如何走嚮現代?現代性理論是對這兩個最核心問題的迴答。 是否有普遍的現代性標準,還是各民族國傢基於本土經驗各具特色,正如反現代性理論所認為的那樣,“每個社會都能以其獨有的方式成為現代社會,現代性經驗的種類和數量是無限的”,對現代國傢的標...
評分 評分什麼是現代國傢?一個國傢如何走嚮現代?現代性理論是對這兩個最核心問題的迴答。 是否有普遍的現代性標準,還是各民族國傢基於本土經驗各具特色,正如反現代性理論所認為的那樣,“每個社會都能以其獨有的方式成為現代社會,現代性經驗的種類和數量是無限的”,對現代國傢的標...
評分圖書標籤: 曆史 歐洲史 英國史 社會 現代性 history Vernon James
一個不錯的看待'現代化'的觀點. 傳統觀點認為工業革命意味著現代化, 這本書說工業革命是結果而不是起因, 是大量人口增長帶來的'陌生人社會'從而促進瞭社會方方麵麵的(統治/政治製度/經濟/人際)改變而現代化的. 作者也在一直強調一點, 雖然係統要顯得impersonal, 但是其實很多方麵個人都在想辦法把個人的charisma, personality之類的傳遞齣去. 我覺得一個有意思的點是, 因為周圍陌生人多瞭, 所以人們更加重視核心傢庭成員之間的情感聯係.
評分A new perspective of modernization.
評分A new perspective of modernization.
評分A new perspective of modernization.
評分A new perspective of modernization.
Distant Strangers 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載