At Day´s Close: Night in Times Past

Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians—those that unfold at night. In this "triumph of social history" (Mail on Sunday), Ekirch´s "enthralling anthropology" (Harper´s) exposes the nightlife that spawned a distinct culture and a refuge from daily life.