@article{887982,
      recid = {887982},
      author = {Föllmer, Moritz.},
      title = {Individuality and modernity in Berlin self and society  from Weimar to the Wall / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge :},
      pages = {ix, 312 p. :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/887982},
}