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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2013
      January 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139380973
      9781107030985
      9781107521322
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139380973
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 324 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 324 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      New Studies in European History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    New Studies in European History
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    Moritz Föllmer traces the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. The demand to be recognised as an individual was central to metropolitan society, as were the spectres of risk, isolation and loss of agency. This was true under all five regimes of the period, through economic depression, war, occupation and reconstruction. The quest for individuality could put democracy under pressure, as in the Weimar years, and could be satisfied by a dictatorship, as was the case in the Third Reich. It was only in the course of the 1950s, when liberal democracy was able to offer superior opportunities for consumerism, that individuality finally claimed the mantle. Individuality and Modernity in Berlin proposes a fresh perspective on twentieth-century Berlin that will engage readers with an interest in the German metropolis as well as European urban history more broadly.

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    'Moritz Föllmer’s focus in this book is about much more than the notion of individuality as a modern phenomenon … providing fresh angles into established historiographical debates … drawing on a vast array of sources, from press clippings to insurance claims and modern design plans, he demonstrates expressions of and claims to individuality as strategies in the negotiation of consent and coercion, power and privacy and everyday life … Föllmer’s analysis shines particularly bright …'

    Jennifer V. Evans Source: European History Quarterly

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