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At day's close : night in times past

A. Roger Ekirch

W.W. Norton, c2005

1st ed

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

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