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At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

Medical Entomology and ZoologyPublished 1 January 2005
A. Roger Ekirch
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Abstract

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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Social Sciences