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

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

Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, 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.

Includes Bibliographical References (p. [341]-414) And Index.