Historian Clifton Crais Argues Modern Era Should Be Defined by Mass Violence, Not Anthropocene
In The Killing Age, the American historian Clifton Crais contends that the modern era should not be defined as the Anthropocene – an Age of Man characterised by rapidly expanding knowledge and large-s
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