At Day's Close: Night in Times Past (83 page)

Frontispiece: Peter Paul Rubens,
Return from the Fields
, seventeenth century.

Copyright © 2005 by A. Roger Ekirch

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First published as a Norton paperback 2006

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ekirch, A. Roger, 1950–

At day’s close : night in times past / A. Roger Ekirch.—1st ed.
p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-393-05089-0 (hardcover)

1. Social history. 2. Night—History. 3. Night—Social aspects. I. Title.

HN8.E48 2005

306.4—dc22

2005002784

ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32901-8 pbk.

ISBN-10: 0-393-32901-1 pbk.

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