Artificial Sunshine: A Social History of Lighting

By Maureen Dillon

An exploration of domestic lighting from the middle ages to the 1990s, ranging from the practical considerations to the influence of lighting upon the clothes people wore and the way that they... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0707802881
• ISBN13: 9780707802886
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Natl Trust
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A very surprising book

The only reason I purchased this book was because I needed to do some research on artificial lighting for my literature term paper. However, once I started to read it I could not put it down. I never thought of artificial lighting the way I do now because this book goes into detail about how different types of light have throughtout history have helped make the world as we know it today. Give it a try it is well worth the money.