Disenchanted night : the industrialization of light in the nineteenth century / Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated from the German by Angela Davies.

Main entry:

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, 1941-2023, author

Title & Author:

Disenchanted night : the industrialization of light in the nineteenth century / Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated from the German by Angela Davies.

Edition:

First paperback edition

Publication:

Berkeley, CA ; London, UK : University of California Press, 1995.
©1988

Description:

227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
"Originally published by Carl Hanser Verlag, 1983" -- Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224) and index.
The lamp -- Fire and flame -- Argand-the modernisation of the wick gaslight -- Electrical apotheosis -- The street -- Shop windows -- Night life -- Shop windows -- The drawing room -- The stage -- The darkening of the auditorium -- Select bibliography

Summary:

"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 subjects including the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shopwindow, and the importance of the salon in bourgeois culture" -- Book cover

ISBN:

0520203542 (paperback)
9780520203549 (paperback)

Subject:

Lighting Social aspects.
Street lighting History 19th century.
Industrialization History 19th century.
Lamps History 19th century.
Éclairage Aspect social.
Industrialisation Histoire 19e siècle.
Lampes Histoire 19e siècle.
Lampadaires (Éclairage public) Histoire 19e siècle.
Industrialization
Lamps
Street lighting
Lightning Social aspects.
Cities and towns Lighting History.
Lamps History.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Davies, Angela, translator.

Industrialization of light in the nineteenth century

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236119
Call No.: BIB 165959
Status: Available

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