Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century

Wolfgang Schivelbusch with Angela Davies (Translator)

227 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction history science sociology informative slow-paced
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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 co...

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