Roger Ekirch
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A. Roger Ekirch (born February 6, 1950, in Washington DC) is University Distinguished Professor of history at Virginia Tech in the United States.[1] He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998. He is internationally known for his pioneering research into pre-industrial sleeping patterns that was first published in "Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles" (The American Historical Review, 2001)[2][3] and later in his award-winning book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past (W.W. Norton, 2005).[4][5]
Selected publications
- "Poor Carolina": Politics and society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776. University of North Carolina Press, 1981.
- Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775. Oxford University Press, 1987.
- "Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles", The American Historical Review, 2001.
- At Day's Close: Night in Times Past. W.W. Norton, 2005.
- Birthright: The True Story of the Kidnapping of Jemmy Annesley. W.W. Norton, 2010.
- "The Modernization of Western Slumber: Or, Does Insomnia Have a History?", Past & Present, 2015.
- "Segmented Sleep in Preindustrial Societies", Sleep, 2016.
- American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution. Pantheon, 2017.
- "What Sleep Research Can Learn From History", Sleep Health, 2018.
- La Grande Transformation du Sommeil: Comment la Revolution Indsustrielle a Boulverse Nos Nuits. Editions Amersterdam, 2021.
See also
References
- ^ "A. Roger Ekirch". History.vt.edu. Department of History, Virginia Tech. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
- ^ ""Sleep We Have Lost" Commentary". History.vt.edu. Department of History, Virginia Tech. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
- ^ Hegarty, Stephanie (2012-02-22). "The myth of the eight-hour sleep". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
- ^ Gideon Lewis-Kraus (2005-07-24). "'At Day's Close': The Dark Ages". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
- ^ "Review: At Day's Close by A Roger Ekirch | Books". The Guardian. 2005-07-30. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
External links
- Rethinking Sleep (NY Times)
- Segmented sleep (Harpers)
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