American illuminations : urban lighting, 1800-1920 /
David E. Nye.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Illuminations -- Energy transitions -- The United States and Europe -- Moonlight towers -- Spectacles and expositions -- Commercial landscape -- City beautiful -- Light as a political spectacle -- Mutliple blindings.
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