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In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. As hulking new buildings overspread blocks and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun, and doctors began to note a resurgence of diseases of darkness like rickets and tuberculosis. This book tracks the American obsession with sunlight.

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"An erudite and often witty study of how natural light became a precious resource in an urbanizing and industrializing America: something to be measured and commodified; something so crucial to health that its loss to towering apartments, narrow streets, and smoky skies had to be mitigated by an impressive array of artificial means, from cod-liver oil and vitamin-fortified milk, to sunlamps and special window glass." (Christian Warren, Brooklyn College, City University of New York)"

American Sunshine Diseases of Darkness and the

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/7/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226262819, 978-0226262819
      ISBN10: 0226262812
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. As hulking new buildings overspread blocks and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun, and doctors began to note a resurgence of diseases of darkness like rickets and tuberculosis. This book tracks the American obsession with sunlight.

      Trade Review
      "An erudite and often witty study of how natural light became a precious resource in an urbanizing and industrializing America: something to be measured and commodified; something so crucial to health that its loss to towering apartments, narrow streets, and smoky skies had to be mitigated by an impressive array of artificial means, from cod-liver oil and vitamin-fortified milk, to sunlamps and special window glass." (Christian Warren, Brooklyn College, City University of New York)"

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