Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
2020-12-31 21:47:37
Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
2020-12-31 21:47:37
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...
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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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