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The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities
History
Statistician Matthew White ranks the hundred deadliest events in human history by death toll, combining grim quantitative history with commentary on the causes of mass violence. Pinker used it as a source for The Better Angels of Our Nature.
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Steven Pinker
“This chronicle of history's hundred deadliest wars and massacres, including death tolls, is a good way to settle bets (who was worse, Genghis Khan or Hitler?), brush up your history, and marvel at the cruelty and stupidity of our species. It was a useful source when I wrote "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined."”
From Pinker's One Grand list; a source for his own The Better Angels of Our Nature.