Appendix 3: Climate in the Eighteenth Century

back to appendix/databases Appendix 3: Climate, wild animal deaths, economic growth Appendices 3-5 in The Killing Age (pp. 553-67) contains detailed information wild animal deaths, climate change, and the explosive economic growth in Britain and the United States. We revisit some of this information here, in an interactive form. Readers wanting to know more about […]

Appendix 2: Human Deaths and the Atlantic Slave Trade

back to appendix/databases Appendix 2: Human Deaths and the Atlantic Slave Trade Human Deaths and Loss, 1750–1914  Determining the number of weapons spreading across the world is challenging. Estimating human and nonhuman mortality figures is even more difficult and grim, not to mention a political football. Censuses only become widespread in the twentieth century, and […]

Wild Animal Deaths

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Appendix 1: Weapons

back to appendix/databases Appendix 1: weapons Appendix 1 in The Killing Age (pp. 539-45) provided detailed information on the total volume of British gunpowder exports and especially exports to Africa based on the extraordinary work of Professor Nick Radburn. Here is additional information on other parts of the world as well as Professor Radburn’s raw […]