Clifton Crais
Professor of history at Emory University specializing in African and comparative history, author of The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World (University of Chicago Press, 2025).
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Apr 12, 2026 • 37min
Clifton Crais, "The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Clifton Crais, a historian of Africa and comparative history at Emory University, presents his concept of the Mortecene, arguing violence and mass killing shaped modern global capitalism. He links slavery, weaponry, and commodity demands to ecological destruction. Short, provocative takes trace credit chains, animal slaughter, and the moral choices that shape our planetary crisis.
