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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.

Disenchanted Night

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Wolfgang Schivelbusch tells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. Not simply a history of... Read more

    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 20/12/1995
    ISBN13: 9780520203549, 978-0520203549
    ISBN10: 0520203542

    Number of Pages: 227

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

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    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.

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