Berlin Electropolis ties the German discourse on nervousness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Berlin's transformation into a capital of the second industrial revolution. Focusing on three key groups--railway personnel, soldiers, and telephone operators--Andreas Killen traces the emergence in the 1880s and then later decline of the belief that modernity caused nervous illness. During this period, Killen explains, Berlin became arguably the most advanced metropolis in Europe. A host of changes, many ...
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Berlin Electropolis ties the German discourse on nervousness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Berlin's transformation into a capital of the second industrial revolution. Focusing on three key groups--railway personnel, soldiers, and telephone operators--Andreas Killen traces the emergence in the 1880s and then later decline of the belief that modernity caused nervous illness. During this period, Killen explains, Berlin became arguably the most advanced metropolis in Europe. A host of changes, many associated with breakthroughs in technologies of transportation, communication, and leisure, combined to radically alter the shape and tempo of everyday life in Berlin. The resulting consciousness of accelerated social change and the shocks and afflictions that accompanied it found their consummate expression in the discourse about nervousness. Wonderfully researched and clearly written, this book offers a wealth of new insights into the nature of the modern metropolis, the psychological aftermath of World War I, and the operations of the German welfare state. Killen also explores cultural attitudes toward electricity, the evolution of psychiatric thought and practice, and the status of women workers in Germany's rapidly industrializing economy. Ultimately, he argues that the backlash against the welfare state that occurred during the late Weimar Republic brought about the final decoupling of modernity and nervous illness.
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As New in As New jacket. This is an account of the rise and fall of various psychiatric diagnoses, treatments, and disputes, and their relation to the changing moral and cultural economy of electricity, both in the clinic and the German metropolis; it describes how nervous disorders characteristic of the late 19th century were transformed by the advent of the German welfare state and the mystique of electricity into traumatic disorders that threatened the solvency of the Weimar economy (light gray cloth with orange lettering; light gray pictorial dust jacket with orange & black lettering; a bright clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore)
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New. Print on demand Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 308 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 38.
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