
Disenchanted Night
The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
Angela Davies
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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.
Product Details
Publisher | University of California Press |
Publish Date | December 20, 1995 |
Pages | 240 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780520203549 |
Dimensions | 8.5 X 5.4 X 0.6 inches | 0.8 pounds |
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.
Reviews
"A readable, highly personal, often original, and deliberately provocative attempt to integrate the story of artifical light with the history of modern life."--Neil Harris, "Science
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