Clifton 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 award-winning books on slavery, empire, colonialism, inequality, violence, climate change and the environment, including The Killing Age, The Politics of Evil, Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa, History Lessons and Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Synoptic in its reach, overwhelming in its detail, The Killing Age leaves one feeling like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver, who came to prefer the company of peaceable horses to membership of humankind, “the most pernicious little race of odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”

Clifton 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 award-winning books on slavery, empire, colonialism, inequality, violence, climate change and the environment, including The Killing Age, The Politics of Evil, Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa, History Lessons and Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Synoptic in its reach, overwhelming in its detail, The Killing Age leaves one feeling like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver, who came to prefer the company of peaceable horses to membership of humankind, “the most pernicious little race of odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”

Clifton 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 award-winning books on slavery, empire, colonialism, inequality, violence, climate change and the environment, including The Killing Age, The Politics of Evil, Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa, History Lessons and Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Synoptic in its reach, overwhelming in its detail, The Killing Age leaves one feeling like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver, who came to prefer the company of peaceable horses to membership of humankind, “the most pernicious little race of odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”