TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nye,David E.
TI  - American Illuminations: Urban Lighting, 1800-1920
T2  - The MIT Press Series
SN  - 9780262344784
AV  - TD195.L52 .N94 2018 
U1  - 628.950973 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Illuminations -- 2 Energy Transitions -- 3 The United States and Europe -- 4 Moonlight Towers -- 5 Spectacles and Expositions -- 6 Commercial Landscape -- 7 City Beautiful -- 8 Light as Political Spectacle -- 9 Multiple Blindings -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - 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
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ER  -