Disenchanted Night
The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
$85.95
- Paperback
227 pages
- Release Date
20 December 1995
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520203549 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520203542 |
| Author: | Wolfgang Schivelbusch |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 227 |
| Release Date: | 20 December 1995 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 137mm x 215mm |
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Critics Review
“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
Wolfgang Schivelbusch
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.
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