Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World
Benjamin Reiss explores how efforts to understand, regulate, and tame sleep have shaped modern society. Wild Nights considers the cultural and historical forces behind our changing relationship with rest, revealing how the pursuit of better sleep may also help explain the restless world we inhabit.
About This Book
Wild Nights examines the relationship between sleep and the societies that seek to manage it.
Benjamin Reiss considers how attempts to tame sleep have influenced the rhythms of modern life.
The book connects sleep with broader questions about culture, health, and changing patterns of daily experience.
It offers a thoughtful look at why rest can remain elusive in a world designed to control time.
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