Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century

by Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
ISBN: 9780520203549
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Overview

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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
  • ISBN: 9780520203549
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.48 x 0.64
  • Number Of Pages: 227
  • Publication Year: 1995
Language: English