Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780520203549 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 227 str.

Wolfgang Schivelbusch; Angela Davies

Opis

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 culture.