Roger Ekirch
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American author and historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arthur Roger Ekirch is University Distinguished Professor of history at Virginia Tech in the United States. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998. The son of intellectual historian Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. and Dorothy Gustafson, Roger Ekirch 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" and later in his award-winning 2005 book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past.
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Published Works
- At Day's Close: Night in Times Past (2005) (167)
- Sleep we have lost: pre-industrial slumber in the British Isles. (2001) (128)
- Convict Transportation to Colonial America@@@Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775. (1987) (58)
- The Modernization of Western Sleep: Or, Does Insomnia have a History? (2015) (32)
- Rites of Passage (1990) (29)
- "Poor Carolina": Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776 (1984) (25)
- Bound for America: A Profile of British Convicts Transported to the Colonies, 1718-1775 (1985) (24)
- Segmented Sleep in Preindustrial Societies. (2016) (23)
- Rough Trade (1990) (21)
- Night Matters—Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” Is Needed (2020) (17)
- At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime (2005) (17)
- Bound for America (1990) (14)
- Night Matters – Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” is Needed (2019) (11)
- Sometimes an Art, Never a Science, Always a Craft: A Conversation with Bernard Bailyn (1994) (9)
- Great Britain's Secret Convict Trade to America, 1783-1784 (1984) (8)
- "A New Government of Liberty": Hermon Husband's Vision of Backcountry North Carolina, 1755 (1977) (7)
- Nineteenth-Century Sleep Violence Cases: A Historical View (2011) (7)
- What sleep research can learn from history. (2018) (7)
- The Transportation of Scottish Criminals to America during the Eighteenth Century (1985) (5)
- Poverty, Class, and Dependence in Early America (1984) (2)
- The Clinical Features of Sleep Violence in Arousal Disorders: A Historical Review (2011) (2)
- The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 (1990) (2)
- Emily Cockayne.Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600–1770.:Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600–1770 (2008) (1)
- Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift. Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales, 1300–1800 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 456. $70.00 (cloth). (2010) (1)
- Response to Dr Gerrit Verhoeven, ‘(Pre)Modern sleep: New evidence from the Antwerp Criminal Court (1715–1795)’ (2020) (1)
- Exiles in the Promised Land (1990) (0)
- Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe by Craig Koslofky (review) (2014) (0)
- Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership. By E. Digby Baltzell (New York: The Free Press, 1979. Pp. xii, 585. $19.95) (1981) (0)
- Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert (eds.), Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution (Charlottesville, Virginia: Univ. Virginia Press. 1984, £20) Pp. xii, 243. ISBN 0 8139 1007 2. (1985) (0)
- The Origins of Instability in North Carolina@@@"Poor Carolina": Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776. (1983) (0)
- The Archaeology of Night: Life after Dark in the Ancient World. Nancy Gonlin and April Nowell, eds. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2018, 442 pp. $75.00, cloth. ISBN 978-1-60732-677-9. (2019) (0)
- Dear Dr Verhoeven, (2020) (0)
- Thanks to Reviewers (2009) (0)
- Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe. By Craig Koslofky (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 448 pp.) (2014) (0)
- Emily Cockayne. Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600–1770. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 335. $35.00 (2008) (0)
- Book Review: Insomnia: a cultural history. (2010) (0)
- Trouble in the Chesapeake (1990) (0)
- Sleep Medicine in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2015) (0)
- Book Review (2008) (0)
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