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The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World

Read by Jason Keller, By (author) Clifton Crais

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â€˜Combines brilliant storytelling with rich and deeply researched evidence . . . essential reading for anyone seeking a global history that reexamines the past on a massive scaleâ€™ â€“ Caroline Elkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Imperial Reckoning and Legacy of Violence 'Synoptic in its reach, overwhelming in its detail, The Killing Age leaves one feeling like Jonathan Swiftâ€™s Gulliver, who came to prefer the company of peaceable horses to membership of humankind' â€“ J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace -------------------- A bold, trailblazing history that asks: what if the movements that built the modern world â€“ the Enlightenment, democracy, the Industrial Revolution â€“ 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 â€“ seen by many as the birth of the Anthropocene â€“ 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. Drawing on decades of scholarship and a range of new sources, The Killing Age turns our vision of past and present on its head, illuminating the Mortecene in all its horror: how it has shaped who we are, what we value, what we fear, and the precarious planet we must now confront. 'Crais obliges us to confront the naked reality of a modern world order spawned from the barrel of a gun . . . This is a courageous and highly readable work' â€“ David Wengrow, co-author of The Dawn of Everything

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