At Day's Close: Night in Times PastA portrait of how people lived in the pre-industrial age describes how a lack of electric lighting separated daytime and evening into more contrasting worlds, explaining how superstition, work, fire, crime, religion, slavery, and other factors were different before the advent of electric lighting. 15,000 first printing. |
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Contents
PRELUDE | 3 |
Heavens and Earth | 31 |
PRELUDE | 59 |
Domestic Fortifications | 90 |
Navigating the Nightscape | 118 |
PRELUDE | 149 |
Labor | 155 |
Sociability Sex | 185 |
Princes and Peers | 210 |
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| Title | At Day's Close: Night in Times Past |
| Author | A. Roger Ekirch |
| Editor | A. Roger Ekirch |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0393050890, 9780393050899 |
| Length | 447 pages |
| Subjects | › History / World |
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