Clifton Crais
@worldhistorian.bsky.social
Historian and author of forthcoming The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World.
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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 ...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Interested in more on whaling in the USA. see blog on www.thekillingage.com
For those of you outside the UK, yesterday Picador released the international paperback edition of The Killing Age. The UK edition comes out early next year.
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
For those of you outside the UK, yesterday Picador released the international paperback edition of The Killing Age. The UK edition comes out early next year.
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.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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...
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
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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.
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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.
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...
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...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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.
October 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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.
Thrilled that Harper's Magazine is excerpting my new book, The Killing Age. Keep an eye out for the November issue!
September 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Thrilled that Harper's Magazine is excerpting my new book, The Killing Age. Keep an eye out for the November issue!
Thrilled that Harper's Magazine will be excerpting my book The Killing Age in an issue coming out in the next few months.
September 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Thrilled that Harper's Magazine will be excerpting my book The Killing Age in an issue coming out in the next few months.
The website that accompanies my new book is now available: www.thekillingage.com
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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
September 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The website that accompanies my new book is now available: www.thekillingage.com
"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
August 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"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
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
August 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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
August 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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."
August 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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."
First bound copies of uncorrected proofs recently arrived at Picador!
July 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
First bound copies of uncorrected proofs recently arrived at Picador!
The first suite of advanced reaction to The Killing Age has arrived. See: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/clif... press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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
June 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The first suite of advanced reaction to The Killing Age has arrived. See: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/clif... press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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!
June 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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!
The cover of the US edition of my new book.
April 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The cover of the US edition of my new book.
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
Faculty for Emory
www.facultyforemory.org
December 17, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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.
December 4, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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.
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.
November 25, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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.