Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century Paperback University of California Press
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Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century Paperback University of California Press

Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century

University of California Press
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Description

Wolfgang Schivelbusch tells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. Not simply a history of a technology, Disenchanted Night revelas the ways that the technology of artificial illumination helped forge modern consciousness. In his strikingly illustrated and lively narrative, Schivelbusch discusses a range of subject including the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shopwindow, and the importance of the salon in bourgeois culture.

Author: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 12/20/1995
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.39w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9780520203549
ISBN10: 0520203542
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Customs & Traditions
- Science | History

About the Author
Wolfgang Schivelbusch is a freelance writer who works in Berlin and New York. His prize-winning work The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century is also available from University of California Press.