false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177636772m/722892.jpg 722892 2 <B>"Remarkable&#133;.Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us."&#151;Arthur Krystal, <I>The New Yorker</I></B><BR><BR>Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (<I>Publishers Weekly</I>), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians&#151;those that unfold at night. In this "triumph of social history" (<I>Mail on Sunday</I>), Ekirch's "enthralling anthropology" (<I>Harper's</I>) exposes the nightlife that spawned a distinct culture and a refuge from daily life.<BR><BR>Fear of crime, of fire, and of the supernatural; the importance of moonlight; the increased incidence of sickness and death at night; evening gatherings to spin wool and stories; masqued balls; inns, taverns, and brothels; the strategies of thieves, assassins, and conspirators; the protective uses of incantations, meditations, and prayers; the nature of our predecessors' sleep and dreams&#151;Ekirch reveals all these and more in his "monumental study" (<I>The Nation</I>) of sociocultural history, "maintaining throughout an infectious sense of wonder" (<I>Booklist</I>).60 illustrations; 8 pages of color. 4067791 2005 At Day's Close: Night in Times Past total:55|5:1|4:3|3:2|2:0|1:0| 55 201 139 25 722892 0393329011 9780393329018 44 22 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177636772m/722892.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722892.At_Day_s_Close_Night_in_Times_Past 3 0 false Mon Dec 08 04:53:57 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 08:17:07 -0800 2008
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offers the odd, fascinating episode (of criminal tactics before streetlights, for example), but just goes on and on and on...]]> 722892 0393329011 9780393329018 44 22 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177636772m/722892.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722892.At_Day_s_Close_Night_in_Times_Past 3 0 false Fri May 23 08:10:38 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 08:11:48 -0700 2008 722892 0393329011 9780393329018 44 22 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177636772m/722892.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722892.At_Day_s_Close_Night_in_Times_Past 3 0 false Thu May 31 16:31:03 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 16:33:15 -0700 2007 1217917 0393050890 9780393050899 11 3 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181965603m/1217917.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1217917.At_Day_s_Close_Night_in_Times_Past 5 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 14:25:37 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 14:26:06 -0700 2007 722892 0393329011 9780393329018 44 22 3.65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177636772m/722892.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722892.At_Day_s_Close_Night_in_Times_Past 3 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jul 21 06:24:19 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 23 10:00:34 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=722892