Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century

By Wolfgang Schivelbusch

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520203542

ISBN13:9780520203549

Release Date:December 1995

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.66 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"

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