At day's close : night in times past
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
Nonfiction
xxxii, 447 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
9780393050899, 9780393329018, 0393050890, 0393329011
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Terrors of the night : heavens and Earth
Mortal perils : plunder, violence, and fire
The fragility of authority : church and state
A man's house is his castle : domestic fortifications
Darkness visible : navigating the nightscape
Works of darkness : labor
The common benefactress : sociability, sex, and solitude
Knightwalkers : princes and peers
Masters by night : plebeians
Ordinances of the bedchamber : rituals
Unraveling the knitted sleeve : disturbances
Sleep we have lost : rhythms and revelations
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