At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

Name: At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
SKU: ByrdShop_0393050890
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hardcover – January 1, 2005

by Ekirch, A. Roger

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ISBN-13: 9780393050899 ISBN-10: 0393050890

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Binding

hardcover

Published

January 1, 2005

Weight

1.8 lbs

Dimensions

24.80×2.50×16.50 cm

About this book

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by Ekirch, A. Roger. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780393050899.

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.