Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles

Abstract

A. Roger Ekirch is a professor of history at Virginia Tech, where he has taught since 1977 after working with Jack P. Greene at Johns Hopkins University. His interest in transatlantic research originated while a Paul Mellon Fellow in American History at Cambridge University (1981–1982). Previous publications include “Poor Carolina”: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776 (1981) and Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775 (1987). He is currently completing a study of nighttime in the Western world from the late medieval era to the Industrial Revolution.

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