At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

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W. 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
Index
415
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Princes and Peers
210

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