I have been researching a database on conflict. Here is a graph:

Hope readers will take a look at the website thekillingage.com.

I hope readers will also take a look at the website, thekillingage.com

hope readers will look at www.thekillingage.com

hope readers will look at www.thekillingage.com

Take a look at the new database on the website. The estimates are better than one may think!

Some readers seem skeptical of my numbers. So I went back to the drawing room and, independent of the book, produced a database you can look at on the website: thekillingage.com. Still a work-in-progress, but I think my estimates hold up pretty darn well.

One does not have to be a democratic socialist to recognize the connections between slavery and the industrial revolution, or that the formative century of capitalist development was profoundly violent. Adam Smith knew this! I have addressed many of these issues in the website thekillingage.com

Lots of people seem unhappy with my book. For additional info go to thekillingage.com and see for yourself!

Methinks the holes are in the reviewers head.
For more details see thekillingage.com.

Books of the Year 2025: Part 2

The Killing Age has been featured in History Today, "Books of the Year 2025": www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

I had such a wonderful time doing a Q&A on Reddit about my new book. Great Questions. And over 102k views!

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.

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.

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.

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.

These issues are explored in great detail in the book, The Killing Age, and also the website 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...

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.

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.

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

Yes, pretty grim. But I hope it is still a good read!

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."

First bound copies of uncorrected proofs recently arrived at Picador!