At Day's Close: Night in Times PastW. W. Norton & Company, 2005 - 447 pagini 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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Heavens and Earth | 7 |
Plunder Violence and Fire | 31 |
PRELUDE | 59 |
Domestic Fortifications | 90 |
Navigating the Nightscape | 118 |
PRELUDE | 149 |
Labor | 155 |
Sociability Sex | 185 |
Plebeians | 227 |
PRELUDE | 261 |
Disturbances | 285 |
Rhythms and Revelations | 300 |
COCK CROW | 324 |
Notes | 341 |
415 | |
Princes and Peers | 210 |
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America Boston Boswell Cambridge candles cities common comp countryside Court Cowper Crime Culture dangerous Daniel Defoe dark David death Decline of Magic Diary dreams E. P. Thompson Early Modern Early Modern Europe eighteenth century England English Eugen Weber Europe families fear fire France French Fynes Moryson George Germany Henry History households Italian James John Journal laborers lamps lanterns late light London Louis-Sébastien Mercier Martha Ballard Matthiessen midnight moon morning Moryson Natten night nighttime nightwalkers nocturnal Nuit numbers observed Oxford Paris passim peasants pedestrians Pepys persons Popular preindustrial Proverbs Renaissance Richard Robert rural Samuel Samuel Pepys Schindler servants seventeenth century sixteenth century slaves sleep slumber social Society spirits streets thieves Thomas Thomas Dekker Thomas Platter tion towns trans Travels urban village violence visitor wake watchmen William William Hogarth witches women writer wrote York young Youth
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