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The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities
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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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“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.
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