Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
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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 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.Tags
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One of the favorites books I read in 2014 but didn't review on my book blog (one of the books I read "for pleasure or research, but not for review"): https://archidose.blogspot.com/2014/12/favorite-books-of-2014.html
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch is a German historian and scholar of cultural studies. He has been awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Arts in Berlin (1003) and the Lessing Prize of the City of Hamburg (2013).
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Technology, Science & Nature
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- 392.36 — Society, government, & culture Customs, etiquette & folklore Customs of life cycle and domestic life Family and home relations
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- GT440 .S3513 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Manners and customs (General) Manners and customs (General) Houses. Dwellings
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