Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century

by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520203542
• ISBN13: 9780520203549
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"