American Illuminations
Urban Lighting, 1800–1920
$84.90
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2022
Summary
How Americans adapted European royal illuminations for patriotic celebrations, spectacular expositions, and intensely bright commercial lighting to create the world’s most dazzling and glamorous cities.
Illuminated fates and civic celebrations began in Renaissance Italy and spread through the courts of Europe. Their fireworks, torches, lamps, and special effects glorified the monarch, marked the birth of a prince, or celebrated military victory. Nineteenth-century Americans rejected s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262546645 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262546647 |
| Author: | David E. Nye |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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David E. Nye
David E. Nye is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Charles Babbage Institute and Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. The author of twelve books with the MIT Press, including American Technological Sublime, he was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 2005 and was knighted by the Queen of Denmark in 2013.
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