Clifton Crais
@worldhistorian.bsky.social
Historian and author of forthcoming The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World.
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29th January | How Violence Made the Modern World
How did violence and commerce converge to unleash unprecedented destruction over the last three centuries? Historian Clifton Crais reveals a dramatic revisionist history.
howtoacademy.com
Please join me on Jan. 29, 6-7 p.m. gmt. How to Academy, in conversation with journalist and broadcaster hannah macinnes. howtoacademy.com/events/how-v...
29th January | How Violence Made the Modern World
How did violence and commerce converge to unleash unprecedented destruction over the last three centuries? Historian Clifton Crais reveals a dramatic revisionist history.
howtoacademy.com
Jan. 29, 6-7 p.m. gmt. How to Academy, in conversation with journalist and broadcaster hannah macinnes. howtoacademy.com/events/how-v...
Not sure this is the end or the beginning, but a copy of the North American edition of The Killing Age arrived in the mail yesterday. My deep appreciation to the Chicago team for all the work they have put into the project. In North America, copies are on their way to bookstores.
Home - The Killing Age
Violence made our world. available november 2025 People around the world are asking the same question: how did we end up in our present crises of global warming, environmental destruction, widespread ...
thekillingage.com
These issues are explored in great detail in the book, The Killing Age, and also the website thekillingage.com
Home - The Killing Age
Violence made our world. available november 2025 People around the world are asking the same question: how did we end up in our present crises of global warming, environmental destruction, widespread ...
thekillingage.com
These issues are explored in great detail in the book, The Killing Age, and also the website thekillingage.com
The Killing Age
A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene—the killing age. We are used to speakin...
press.uchicago.edu
The North American edition of The Killing Age is now heading to bookstores. You can also purchase directly from the press: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Huge thanks to the Picador team based in London for the amazing job they have done publishing my book. Both the North American and International hardbacks have maps covering both sides of the endpapers, one from about 1700 and the other 200 years later.
Clifton Crais
@worldhistorian.bsky.social
· Sep 22
Thrilled that Harper's Magazine is excerpting my new book, The Killing Age. Keep an eye out for the November issue!
Clifton Crais
@worldhistorian.bsky.social
· Sep 18
Thrilled that Harper's Magazine will be excerpting my book The Killing Age in an issue coming out in the next few months.
Home - The Killing Age
Violence made our world. available november 2025 People around the world are asking the same question: how did we end up in our present crises of global warming, environmental destruction, widespread ...
www.thekillingage.com
The website that accompanies my new book is now available: www.thekillingage.com
Clifton Crais
@worldhistorian.bsky.social
· Aug 26
"This is the most urgently important book I have read this year or in many years. ...The Age of Killing will provoke, enrage, and inform its readers--and it will change how they see the world. An epic masterpiece. "
Sunil Amrith, author of The Burning Earth
Sunil Amrith, author of The Burning Earth
Clifton Crais
@worldhistorian.bsky.social
· Aug 13
Yes, pretty grim. But I hope it is still a good read!
Clifton Crais
@worldhistorian.bsky.social
· Aug 13
The latest endorsement of The Killing Age: "Our understanding of the global history of the last 300 years will never be the same again." -- Peter Furtado, editor of Revolutions
The website that accompanies my new book is almost done and set to launch in the next month or so: thekillingage.com
First review of my new book, The Killing Age: (www.goodreads.com/review/show/...)
"-A bombshell of a book—Crais proves that modernity was built not on ideas, but on corpses.
-The Silent Spring of history: an unflinching exposé of how violence became the world’s most profitable industry."
"-A bombshell of a book—Crais proves that modernity was built not on ideas, but on corpses.
-The Silent Spring of history: an unflinching exposé of how violence became the world’s most profitable industry."
Clifton Crais
@worldhistorian.bsky.social
· Jul 19
First bound copies of uncorrected proofs recently arrived at Picador!
Clifton Crais
@worldhistorian.bsky.social
· Jun 25
The Killing Age
A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene—the killing age. We are used to speakin...
press.uchicago.edu
The first suite of advanced reaction to The Killing Age has arrived. See: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/clif... press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Clifton Crais
@worldhistorian.bsky.social
· Jun 18
The index is being prepared, and the final proofs should be ready. So, everything is on schedule for the fall release of The Killing Age. Keep an eye out for the website too!
Clifton Crais
@worldhistorian.bsky.social
· Dec 17
Faculty for Emory
www.facultyforemory.org
Announcing a new organization to help save the university, in this case Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Hope others will do the same. www.facultyforemory.org
A first stab at one of the graphs that will be in the website going out with the publication The Killing Age. T
Stay tuned for more.
Stay tuned for more.
Clifton Crais
@worldhistorian.bsky.social
· Nov 25
So thrilled to be on a platform that is not X (which I had stopped using some time ago)! I will be posting here on various issues, including a new book, The Killing Age, that will have an interactive webpage that will allow users to explore how the world came to be over the past few centuries.