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SUMMARY:Author Event: Clifton Crais\, 'The Killing Age'
DESCRIPTION:The Blue Hill Library and Blue Hill Books are cosponsoring an 
 event with Castine author and Professor of History Clifton Crais on 
 Thursday\, July 9 at 7 PM in the library's Howard Room. Clifton will 
 discuss his new book\, The Killing Age\, a sharp account of how our current 
 planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human 
 history\, which he terms the Mortecene—the killing age. \n\nFrom the 
 publisher: "In this landmark book\, Crais urges us to view the growth of 
 global capitalism between 1750 and the early 1900s not as the 
 Anthropocene\, but as the Mortecene: the Killing Age. Killing brought the 
 world together and tore it apart\, as profiteering warlords committed 
 mass-scale slaughter of humans and animals across Africa\, Asia\, and the 
 Americas. The newfound ease and profitability of killing created a 
 disturbing network of global connections and economies\, eliminating tens 
 of millions of people and sparking an environmental crisis that remains the 
 most urgent catastrophe facing the world today.\n\nDrawing on years of 
 scholarship and marshaling myriad sources across world history\, The 
 Killing Age turns our vision of past and present on its head\, illuminating 
 the Mortecene in all its horror—how it shaped who we are\, what we value 
 and fear\, and the precarious present we inhabit today.' \n\nClifton Crais 
 is Professor of History at Emory University specializing in African and 
 comparative history. He has previously held teaching positions at Johns 
 Hopkins\, Stanford University\, and Kenyon College. He has published 
 numerous books on slavery\, empire\, colonialism\, inequality\, violence\, 
 climate change and the environment\, including The Politics of Evil (which 
 won the 2004 Ohio Academy of History Prize)\, Poverty\, War\, and Violence 
 in South Africa and Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus. He is also the 
 author of the memoir History Lessons\, which was a Kirkus Best Memoir of 
 2014. Crais lives in Castine\, Maine.\n\nThis program is free and open to 
 the public. Blue Hill Books will be on site with copies of the book 
 available for purchase. For more information\, please call the library at 
 374-5515 or email Assistant Director Kayleigh Thomas at 
 kayleigh.thomas[at]bhpl.net.
LOCATION:Howard Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Kayleigh Thomas":MAILTO:kayleigh.thomas@bhpl.net
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CONTACT;CN="Kayleigh Thomas":MAILTO:kayleigh.thomas@bhpl.net
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