At Day's Close: Night in Times Past: Night in Time's Past

by A. Roger Ekirch

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A 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.
  • ISBN10 0393050890
  • ISBN13 9780393050899
  • Publish Date 17 June 2005 (first published 16 June 2005)
  • Publish Status Inactive
  • Out of Print 4 April 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 480
  • Language English