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The gun, the ship, and the pen : warfare, constitutions, and the making of the modern world / Linda Colley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colley, Linda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law--Political aspects.
- Constitutional law.
- Constitutional history.
- War (International law).
- Military art and science.
- Implied powers (Constitutional law).
- Physical Description:
- 502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
- Summary:
- "A groundbreaking work that retells modern history through the rise and spread of written constitutions-some enlightened, many oppressive-to every corner of the globe. Filling a crucial void in our understanding of world history, Linda Colley reconfigures the rise of the modern world over three centuries through the advent of written constitutions. Her absorbing work challenges accepted narratives, focusing on rulers like Catherine the Great, who wrote her enlightened Nakaz years before the French Revolution; African visionaries like Sierra Leone's James Africanus Beale Horton; and Tunisias's soldier-constitutionalist Khayr-al-Din, who championed constitutional reform in the Muslim world. Demonstrating how constitutions repeatedly evolved in tandem with warfare, and how they were used to free, but also exclude, people (especially women and indigenous populations), this handsomely illustrated history-with its pageant of powerful monarchs, visionary lawmakers, and insurrectionist rebels-evokes The Silk Roads in its range and ambition. Whether reinterpreting the lasting influence of Japan's 1889 Meiji constitution or exploring the first constitution to enfranchise women in tiny Pitcairn Island in 1838, this book is one of the most original and absorbing histories in decades"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE INTO AND OUT OF EUROPE
- ch. One The Multiple Trajectories Of War
- Corsica
- The Wider Reasons Why
- A More Expansive, More Expensive Warfare
- Hybrid Wars and Revolutions
- Haiti: The Exception that Broke and Proves Some Rules
- ch. Two Old Europe, New Ideas
- St Petersburg
- War, Paper and Enlightenments
- A Woman Writing
- Male Monarchs and Innovation
- Enter the Charter Man, Enter Tom Paine
- pt. TWO OUT OF WAR, INTO REVOLUTIONS
- ch. Three The Force Of Print
- Philadelphia
- Arms and the Men and the Printed Word
- Reading and Borrowing
- Revising the Script across Continents
- Power and the Limits of Print
- ch. Four Armies Of Legislators
- Paris
- Hybrid Warfare Repeated and Extended
- The Napoleon of Constitutions
- Invading the Spanish World, Encountering God
- Assessing the Monster and His Works
- ch. Five Exception And Engine
- London
- War and the Limits of Exceptionalism
- World City, City of Words and Exiles
- Remaking South America, Imagining Britain
- Crossings
- pt. THREE NEW WORLDS
- ch. Six Those Not Meant To Win, Those Unwilling To Lose
- Pitcairn
- Why Were Women Left Out?
- Settler Warfare
- Tahiti and Writing Back
- Hawaii and Different Modernities
- ch. Seven The Light, The Dark And The Long 1860S
- Tunisia
- War Without Boundaries
- Out of an American Civil War
- Into Africa, with Hope
- Losses and Legacies
- ch. Eight Break Out
- Tokyo
- The Violence of Change
- The Emperors' New Constitutions
- Japan and an Altered World
- Lessons.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780871403162
- 0871403161
- OCLC:
- 1196820552
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