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Journal Article Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles Get access A. Roger Ekirch A. Roger Ekirch 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. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 106, Issue 2, April 2001, Pages 343–386, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/106.2.343 Published: 01 April 2001
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