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A. Roger Ekirch

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

Hardcover (W W Norton & Co Inc June 13, 2005)
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. 15,000 first printing.
ISBN
0393050890 / 9780393050899
Pages
447
Weight
28.8 oz.
Dimensions
6.5 x 1.0 in.