Brilliant_ The Evolution of Artificial Light - Jane Brox [127]
The first section of Brilliant owes much to A. Roger Ekirch, At Day's Close: Night in Times Past (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005); Yi-Fu Tuan, "The City: Its Distance from Nature," Geographical Review 68, no. 1 (January 1978); Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Panorama of Paris, edited by Jeremy D. Popkin (University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1999); Richard Ellis, Men and Whales (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991); and D. Alan Stevenson, The World's Lighthouses Before 1820 (London: Oxford University Press, 1959). Chapter 2 owes a particular debt to Wolfgang Schivelbush for insight concerning lanterns and the French Revolution, and to Yi-Fu Tuan for thoughts on cities and their separation from the natural world.
For the chapters on electricity, I'm grateful to Brian Bowers, Lengthening the Day: A History of Lighting Technology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); Philip Dray, Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America (New York: Random House, 2005); Jill Jonnes, Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World (New York: Random House, 2004); Robert Friedel and Paul Israel, Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987); and Pierre Berton, Niagara: A History of the Falls (New York: Kodansha International, 1997).
For the chapters on early-twentieth-century light, I relied largely on Morris Llewellyn Cooke, ed., Giant Power: Large Scale Electrical Development as a Social Factor (Philadelphia: Academy of Political and Social Science, 1925); David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992); Katherine Jellison, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913–1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993); Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982); Mary Ellen Romeo, Darkness to Daylight: An Oral History of Rural Electrification in Pennsylvania and New Jersey (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association, 1986); James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988); Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women (Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1978); and Michael J. McDonald and John Muldowny, TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982). Chapter 15, especially the section on the sounds of war, owes much to Angus Calder, The People's War: Britain, 1939–45 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1969).
And for the final section of the book, I'm indebted to A. M. Rosenthal, ed., The Night the Lights Went Out (New York: New American Library, 1965); Catherine Rich and Travis Longcore, eds., Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006); and the International Dark-Sky Association website, http://www.darksky.org.
Notes
PROLOGUE: THE EARTH AT NIGHT AS SEEN FROM SPACE
[>] "one could not have put": Anton Chekhov, "Easter Eve," in The Bishop and Other Stories, trans. Constance Garnett (New York: Ecco Press, 1985), p. 49.
On a map of the earth: To view the map, see John Weier, "Bright Lights, Big City," http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Lights. See also http://visibleearth.nasa.gov (both accessed April 5, 2007).
[>] "We are almost certain": Gaston Bachelard, The Psychoanalysis of Fire, trans. Alan C. Ross (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968), p. 55.
PART I
[>] "Of time that passes": Gaston Bachelard, The Flame of a Candle, trans. Joni Caldwell (Dallas: Dallas Institute Publications, 1988), p. 69.
CHAPTER 1: