num_pages: 240
description: 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 streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shopwindow, and the importance of the salon in bourgeois culture.
language: English
title: Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
titlecomplete: Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
genres: Sociology, History, Science, Society, Geography, Technology, 19th Century, Cultural Studies, Research, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 188
publisher: University of California Press