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The Killing Age

How Violence Made the Modern World

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The Killing Age

De : Clifton Crais
Lu par : Jason Keller
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‘Combines brilliant storytelling with rich and deeply researched evidence . . . essential reading for anyone seeking a global history that reexamines the past on a massive scale’ – 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 Swift’s Gulliver, who came to prefer the company of peaceable horses to membership of humankind' – J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace

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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.

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' – David Wengrow, co-author of The Dawn of Everything

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Synoptic in its reach, overwhelming in its detail, The Killing Age leaves one feeling like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver, who came to prefer the company of peaceable horses to membership of humankind, “the most pernicious little race of odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.” (J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace)
Combines brilliant storytelling with rich and deeply researched evidence . . . essential reading for anyone seeking a global history that reexamines the past on a massive scale (Caroline Elkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Imperial Reckoning and Legacy of Violence)
An urgent corrective to grand narratives that naturalise the role of violence in human history . . . 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 of scholarship, which lays bare a nexus of forces that – if left unchecked – will surely destroy the future of life on Earth (David Wengrow, co-author of The Dawn of Everything)
A bravura performance . . . Anyone who has had any doubts about the Panglossian view of history peddled by progressive rationalists . . . will find their scepticism vindicated by Crais's richly detailed and memorably vivid recreation of the gory underside of capitalist progress
A vast, unsparing world history (Books of the Year)
Crais’s analysis ranges widely, he gives an especially gripping account of how guns debauched Africa . . . The Killing Age chillingly evokes how distinctions between warlords and statesmen, empires and bands of robbers, slip and blur when we consider organized robbery and mass murder
The Killing Age is a broad-ranging, provocative look at how interlocking and far-reaching processes—exports of Anglo-American guns, enslavement, land-grabbing, and genocide—shaped the emergence of the modern world . . . This vital book will be widely discussed and productively debated for years to come (Kenneth Pomeranz, author of The Great Divergence)
A tour de force that puts humans' capacity for both violence and invention at the center of world history. With impressive narrative scope, The Killing Age draws readers into a world of trade forged in blood, challenging us to understand the origins of our era in a new – and deeply disturbing – light (Kerry Ward, author of Networks of Empire)
A bracing, unflinching history of how violence – selling it and dealing it – created the carbon-intensive economy that is now transforming our planet. Crais has redefined the Anthropocene as the age of bloodshed (Bathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast)
Our understanding of the global history of the last 300 years will never be the same again. (Peter Furtado, editor of Revolutions)
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