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Disenchanted Night The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
by Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, Davies, Angela
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- Comments: First Edition. 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 cultur
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- ISBN-13: 9780520203549
- ISBN: 0520203542
- Publication Date: 1995
- Publisher: Univ of California Pr
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"'Disenchanted Night' is not merely the story of the electric light. It is an analysis of the symbolic meaning of domestic light....[It] provides ground for much speculation about the deregulation of utilities, the role of lighting in crime control, the growing attraction of the self-sufficient rural life and the social function of the theater."Schivelbusch, Wolfgang is the author of 'Disenchanted Night The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century', published 1995 under ISBN 9780520203549 and ISBN 0520203542.
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