Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger Desmond Elliott Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2019) #1 New York Times bestselling

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Saint Anything

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and the fierce idealism which led him to reject both liberal hypocrisies and black racialism

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Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger Desmond Elliott Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2019) #1 New York Times bestsellingThe period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on the other? Fear of Small Numbers is Arjun Appadurais