The killing age : how violence made the modern world
Crais, Clifton C.2026
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A bold, trailblazing history that asks: what if the movements that built the modern world - the Enlightenment, democracy, the Industrial Revolution - were more catastrophic than we ever imagined? In this radical rethinking of modernity, Professor Clifton Crais argues that the era between 1750 and the early 1900s - seen by many as the birth of the Anthropocene - should instead be known as the Mortecene: the Age of Killing. Killing brought the world together and tore it apart, as violence and commerce converged to create a new and terrible world order that drove the growth of global capitalism. Profiteering warlords left a trail of devastation across Africa, Asia, and the Americas, committing mass-scale slaughter of humans and animals, and sparking an environmental crisis that remains the most pressing threat facing the world today.
Main title:
The killing age : how violence made the modern world / Clifton Crais.
Author:
Crais, Clifton C., author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2026.
Collation:
736 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781035013418 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
303.609303.609 CRA
Language:
English
BRN:
9059063