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Paperback In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930 Book

ISBN: 022626954X

ISBN13: 9780226269542

In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930

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Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin's evocative book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors--scavengers, newsboys, and mashers alike--in...

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