At Day's Close - A History of Nighttime

A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime. 'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Professor A. Roger Ekirch was born in 1950 in America. He teaches at Virginia Tech. On the basis of his research into the nighttime, Ekirch was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Zusammenfassung

A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime. 'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR

Vorwort

A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime.
'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR

Produktdetails

• Autoren: A Roger Ekirch, A. Roger Ekirch
• Verlag: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781474624916
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-2491-6
• Seiten: 480
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 196 mm x 40 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Wales, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, NATURE / Sky Observation, natural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Wales, Folklore, myths & legends, History: earliest times to present day, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Folklore, myths and legends, Nature and the natural world: general interest, European history: medieval period, middle ages, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy