It has been translated into Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. The British edition ( Canongate Books, 20 October 2011) is entitled Atrocitology: Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements. Norton in May 2013 under the new title Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History. The book was first published in hardcover by W.
Another conclusion is that chaos is more deadly than tyranny. He adds that governments do not kill people, rather people kill people. One of White's conclusions is that no one system of government is obviously more murderous, and anarchy can be worst of all.
White says that there is no atrocity for which the statistics can be agreed upon worldwide. His focus is on armed conflict, with famine and disease relating to such conflict counting for the statistics, while natural disasters and economic events do not. White's methodology for creating the list was gathering all available data on atrocities and attempting to discern consensus estimates for each one's death tolls. Some of these are the Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia, An Lushan Rebellion, and World War II. After the foreword, the book chronologically lists the hundred atrocities. The foreword of the book was written by psychologist Steven Pinker. According to White, the Atlas been used as source by many authors, including in 377 books and 183 scholarly articles.
White previously administered the Historical Atlas of the 20th Century on his own website, and became interested in the subject due to constant arguments in cyberspace about who was actually responsible for various atrocities throughout history. White, a librarian at the federal courthouse in Richmond, Virginia, wrote the book in 2011.
The book provides a ranking of the hundred worst atrocities of mankind based on the number of deaths. The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities is a popular history book by Matthew White, a librarian. The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History’s 100 Worst Atrocities
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