Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity Volume 38

by Andreas Killen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520243625
• ISBN13: 9780520243620
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"