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Disenchanted Night : The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century - Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Disenchanted Night

The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century

By: Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Angela Davies (Translator)

Paperback | 20 December 1995

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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 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.
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"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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