{"product_id":"the-killing-age-how-violence-made-the-modern-world-hardcover","title":"The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClifton Crais\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene--the killing age.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e We are used to speaking of the Anthropocene and the outsized impact humans have had on the planet. But we sometimes lose sight of a fundamental truth at the heart of modern world history: the legacy of human predation, slavery, and imperialism that has devastated the natural world and led us to our present moment. As historian Clifton Crais shows in this magisterial work, the period that we most associate with human progress--which gave us the Enlightenment, the rise of democracies, the Industrial Revolution, and more--was at the same time catastrophically destructive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this bracing, landmark book, Crais urges us to view the growth of global capitalism between 1750 and the early 1900s not as the Anthropocene, but as the Mortecene: the Killing Age. Killing brought the world together and tore it apart, as profiteering warlords committed mass-scale slaughter of humans and animals across Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The newfound ease and profitability of killing created a disturbing network of global connections and economies, eliminating tens of millions of people and sparking an environmental crisis that remains the most urgent catastrophe facing the world today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on years of scholarship and marshaling myriad sources across world history, \u003ci\u003eThe Killing Age\u003c\/i\u003e turns our vision of past and present on its head, illuminating the Mortecene in all its horror--how it shaped who we are, what we value and fear, and the precarious present we inhabit today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClifton Crais\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at Emory University. He is the author or editor of eight other books, including the memoir \u003ci\u003eHistory Lessons: A Memoir of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Memory, and the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, coauthored with Pamela Scully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 664\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.86 x 9.19 x 6.39 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52036126900525,"sku":"9780226827414","price":36.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/v5HbxF8b_Y9780226827414.webp?v=1777787419","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-killing-age-how-violence-made-the-modern-world-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}