num_pages: 447
description: 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. 15,000 first printing.
language: English
title: At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
titlecomplete: At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
genres: Science, Nonfiction, Cultural, History, Health, World History, Historical, Sociology, Nature, Anthropology
ratings_count: 1320
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc