Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century

by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

2021-01-01 02:17:37

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 consc... Read more
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.
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File size8.5 X 5.38 X 0.6 in
Print pages227
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publication date December 20, 1995
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780520203549
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, winner of the Heinrich Mann Prize, Germany's most prestigious nonfiction award, is an independent scholar who divides his time between New York and Berlin. His books include The...

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