At Day's Close: Night in Times Past - Ekirch, A. Roger

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At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by Ekirch, A. Roger Format: Hardcover with Dust JacketPublished by W W Norton & Co Inc, 2005 A portrait of how people lived in the pre-industria l 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. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [341]-414) And Index. Show more