Disenchanted Night: Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century

by WSchivelbusch (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $28.07

  Wolfgang Schivelbusch tells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. Not simply a history of a technology, Disenchanted Night reveals 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 street lamps, the rise of night-life and the shop-window, and the importance of the salon in bourgeois culture.