At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime
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AT DAY'S CLOSE charts a fresh realm of Western culture, nocturnal life from the late medieval period to the Industrial revolution. The book focuses on the cadences of daily life, investigating nighttime in its own right and resurrecting a rich and complex universe in which persons passed nearly half of their lives - a world, long-lost to historians, of blanket fairs, night freaks, and curtain lect... More
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Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd |
Binding | Hardcover (7 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 384 |
ISBN-10 | 0297829920 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0297829928 |
Publication Date | 06/16/2005 |
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