Our modern world was born from destruction — and no more so than in North America, which historian Clifton Crais describes as the most violent place on the planet in the 18th and 19th centuries. Crais describes what he calls the Mortecene against humans and the rest of nature.

Clifton Crais, The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World University of Chicago Press, 2025

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