Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth CenturyExamines the interplay between new and revolutionary technology and nineteenth-century imagination |
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Review: Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
User Review - GoodreadsExcellent book for those interested in Cultural Forms, in this case: light.
Review: Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
User Review - GoodreadsIf anything, this book could be twice as long :o)
Contents
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Garden aspect of the PalaisRoyal | 151 |
Light in the drawingroom | 159 |
The curtain | 170 |
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The Darkening of the Auditorium | 203 |
The central chandelier | 210 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century |
| Author | Wolfgang Schivelbusch |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0520059034, 9780520059030 |
| Length | 227 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / History Social Science / Sociology / General |
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