In the Watches of the Night - Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930

Zusammenfassung Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, technologies began to light up streets, buildings, and public spaces. This book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over this period.

Product details

• Authors: Peter C. Baldwin, Baldwin Peter C.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2012
• EAN: 9780226036021
• ISBN: 978-0-226-03602-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban Am; Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban Am
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Urban communities, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)