{"product_id":"the-killing-age-how-violence-made-the-modern-world","title":"The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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 \u003ci\u003eImperial Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLegacy of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardback | 736 pages | Published January 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63986268111197,"sku":"9781035013418","price":37.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781035013418.jpg?v=1774497708","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/the-killing-age-how-violence-made-the-modern-world","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}