Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night
by Henry Nicholls · 1 Mar 2018 · 367pp · 102,188 words
was the prediction that in the past, when winter nights were long and dark, we might have slept in two discrete stints. When social historian Roger Ekirch chanced upon a write-up of Wehr’s work in the New York Times in 1995, he was stunned. He was researching sleep as part
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Christiane Ritter is a little known book about a year spent among fur-trappers in the Arctic and contains magical descriptions of light and darkness. Roger Ekirch’s discovery of a biphasic pattern of pre-industrial sleep first appeared in his stunning article ‘Sleep we have lost’, American Historical Review 106.2
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and her narcoleptic pit bull-Staffordshire-bulldog cross Charlie. Back in London, I attended a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine, where I met Roger Ekirch, Francesco Cappuccio, Jim Horne and Dirk-Jan Dijk, all of whom were kind enough to offer further help in capturing their work accurately. Several of
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.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079612308604161> [accessed 14 November 2016]. p. 33 Jane Rowth had a particular impact Roger Ekirch, Interview with author, 7 February 2017. p. 33 a couple of days later A. Roger Ekirch, At Day’s Close: A History of Nighttime (Phoenix, 2006), p. 307. p. 34 between light and light
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The quotations from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Robert Louis Stevenson appear in A. Roger Ekirch, ‘Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles’, American Historical Review, 106.2 (2001), 343–386. p. 34 premier sommeil A
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. Roger Ekirch, ‘Sleep We Have Lost’. p. 35 getting out of bed A. Roger Ekirch, ‘A Social History of Sleep – Looking Back to What Was “Normal Sleep”’ (Royal Society of Medicine, 2017). p. 36
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson · 28 Sep 2014 · 243pp · 65,374 words
nights were so oppressive that scientists now believe our sleep patterns were radically different in the ages before ubiquitous night lighting. In 2001, the historian Roger Ekirch published a remarkable study that drew upon hundreds of diaries and instructional manuals to convincingly argue that humans had historically divided their long nights into
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
by Daniel Lieberman · 2 Sep 2020 · 687pp · 165,457 words
or two before going back to sleep. Debate over the normality of these varying patterns was triggered by the anthropologist Carol Worthman and the historian Roger Ekirch.33 These scholars argued that it was normal prior to the Industrial Revolution for people to wake up for an hour or so in the
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by Nancy Isenberg · 20 Jun 2016 · 709pp · 191,147 words
Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607–1776 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947): 5, 7, 12, 20, 67–85, 136–51; A. Roger Ekirch, “Bound for America: A Profile of British Convicts Transported to the Colonies, 1718–1775,” William and Mary Quarterly 42, no. 2 (April 1985): 184–222
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Press, 2009), 1, 13, 162; Kirsten Fischer, Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002), 24; A. Roger Ekirch, “Poor Carolina”: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981), xviii–xix, 24. For “useless lubbers
A Burglar's Guide to the City
by Geoff Manaugh · 17 Mar 2015 · 238pp · 75,994 words
aggressively that popular uprisings would henceforth be spatially impossible. This is not the only police project for which Paris is widely known. As historian A. Roger Ekirch explains in his 2005 book, At Day’s Close, the idea of lighting the streets of Paris back in the 1600s originally came from the
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their counterrevolutionary effects simply came from pushing the working class out of central Paris. For more on the history of urban lighting programs, see A. Roger Ekirch, At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005). For more on predictive policing, see, among other articles, “Predicting Crime
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker · 2 Oct 2017 · 442pp · 127,300 words
phases that resemble wake and sleep. We now know that the reason they never close their eyes is because they have no eyelids. III. A. Roger Ekirch, At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006). CHAPTER 5 * * * Changes in Sleep Across the Life Span SLEEP BEFORE
Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff
by Dinah Sanders · 7 Oct 2011 · 267pp · 78,857 words
’re at it, though, don’t stress too much about nighttime wakefulness. It’s totally normal for humans, according to Virginia Tech University sleep historian Roger Ekirch (as cited by Natalie Wolchover in LifeScience). Regard it as “segmented sleep” instead of “insomnia.” Relax, and use those moments for quiet activities: think deep
Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity
by Edward Tenner · 8 Jun 2004 · 423pp · 126,096 words
: Beacon Press, 1994). 55. Dan Logan, “Home Office Thrones,” Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1999. 56. “Science of Easy Chairs,” 638. CHAPTER SIX 1. A. Roger Ekirch, “Sleep We Have Lost: Preindustrial Slumber in the British Isles,” American Historical Review, vol. 105, no. 2 (April 2000), 343–87; Peter N. Stearns et
Dr. Johnson's London: Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education
by Liza Picard · 1 Jan 2000 · 505pp · 137,572 words
Magazine, July 1763. 57. The Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1771. 58. William Alexander, The History of Women, London, 1779. 59. Radzinowicz, op. cit. 60. A. Roger Ekirch, Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies 1718–1775, Oxford, 1987, on which the following section is based. 61. This word