{"product_id":"9781035013432-killing-age-how-violence-made-the-modern-world","title":"The Killing Age","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow Violence Made the Modern World\u003cbr\u003eA trailblazing history that reappraises the making of the modern world through the lens of mass violence – for readers of David Graeber \u0026amp; David Wengrow, Caroline Elkins and Amitav Ghosh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Combines brilliant storytelling with rich and deeply researched evidence . essential reading’ – Caroline Elkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eImperial Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLegacy of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Synoptic in its reach, overwhelming in its detail, \u003ci\u003eThe Killing Age\u003c\/i\u003e leaves one feeling like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver, who came to prefer the company of peaceable horses to membership of humankind' – J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--------------------\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKilling 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on decades of scholarship and a range of new sources, \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 has shaped who we are, what we value, what we fear, and the precarious planet we must now confront.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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' – David Wengrow, co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816051679606,"sku":"9781035013432","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781035013432-killing-age-how-violence-made-the-modern-world","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}