{"product_id":"killing-age","title":"Killing Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Enlightenment. Democracy. The Industrial Revolution. What if the movements that built the modern world were more destructive than we ever imagined?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Brilliant . . . essential reading’ – Caroline Elkins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Urgent, courageous and highly readable’ – David Wengrow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Richly detailed and memorably vivid’ – \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Gripping’ – \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A bracing moral reckoning’ – \u003ci\u003eIndian Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this radical history of modernity, Professor Clifton Crais argues that the era between 1750 and the early 1900s was not primarily an Age of Reason, but an Age of Killing: the \u003ci\u003eMortecene\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKilling brought the world together and tore it apart, as violence and finance converged to create a new and terrible world order. Profiteering warlords left a trail of devastation across Africa, Asia, and the Americas, slaughtering humans and animals by the millions and sparking the catastrophic environmental crisis we face today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on decades of scholarship, \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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57502090756469,"sku":"9781035013432","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781035013432.jpg?v=1786780906","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/killing-age","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}