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Nights in the big city : Paris, Berlin, London, 1840-1930 / Joachim Schlör ; translated by Pierre Gottfried Imhof and Dafydd Rees Roberts ; with a foreword by Matthew Beaumont.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schlör, Joachim, author.
- Series:
- Topographics.
- Topographics
- Language:
- English
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--Europe--History.
- City and town life.
- Paris (France)--Social life and customs.
- Paris (France).
- Berlin (Germany)--Social life and customs.
- Berlin (Germany).
- London (England)--Social life and customs.
- London (England).
- Europe--Moral conditions.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books, 2016.
- Summary:
- This elegantly written book describes the evolving perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin, and London. As Joachim Schlör shows, the lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night for both those who toiled at work and those who caroused in restaurants, pubs, and cafes. Nights in the Big City explores this change and offers a stirring portrait of the secrets and mysteries a city can hold when the sun goes down.Sifting through countless police and church archives alongside first-hand accounts, Schlör sets out on his own explorations with a head full of histories, exploring the boulevards and side-streets of these three great capitals. Illustrated with haunting and evocative photographs by, among others, Bill Brandt and André Kertész, and filled with contemporary literary references, Nights in the Big City is a milestone in the cultural history of the city.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Nights in the Big City: Paris, Berlin, London, 1840-1930
- Imprint Page
- Contents
- Foreword Matthew Beaumont
- 1. Contradictory Reports from Night in the Big City
- 2. A Beginning: Big City Nights around 1840
- Digression: In a New Light
- 3. Night and Security
- 4. Night and Morality
- 5. Night-walking
- 6. An End: Big City Nights around 1930
- References
- Bibliography
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 16, 2016).
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