{"product_id":"9781035013425","title":"The Killing Age","description":"Author: Clifton Crais\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035013425\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Nov 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 720\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--------------------\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nIn 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nKilling 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nDrawing 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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47845860212894,"sku":"TLD-9781035013425","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781035013425.jpg?v=1781223165","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781035013425","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}