Items related to The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions,...
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World - Hardcover
- PublisherLiveright
- Publication date2021
- ISBN 10 0871403161
- ISBN 13 9780871403162
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages512
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 12.32
Shipping:
US$ 4.80
Within U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 1N-DESY-YUCO
Buy New
US$ 12.32
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Published by
Liveright Publishing Corporation
(2021)
ISBN 10: 0871403161
ISBN 13: 9780871403162
New
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. Best Books of the Year: Financial Times, The EconomistBook of the Year: The Leaflet (International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism)Longlisted for the Cundill History PrizeProfiled in The New YorkerNew York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceVivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions.A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between the making of constitutions and the making of war. In the process, Linda Colley both reappraises famous constitutions and recovers those that have been marginalized but were central to the rise of a modern world.She brings to the fore neglected sites, such as Corsica, with its pioneering constitution of 1755, and tiny Pitcairn Island in the Pacific, the first place on the globe permanently to enfranchise women. She highlights the role of unexpected players, such as Catherine the Great of Russia, who was experimenting with constitutional techniques with her enlightened Nakaz decades before the Founding Fathers framed the American constitution. Written constitutions are usually examined in relation to individual states, but Colley focuses on how they crossed boundaries, spreading into six continents by 1918 and aiding the rise of empires as well as nations. She also illumines their place not simply in law and politics but also in wider cultural histories, and their intimate connections with print, literary creativity, and the rise of the novel.Colley shows how-while advancing epic revolutions and enfranchising white males-constitutions frequently served over the long nineteenth century to marginalize indigenous people, exclude women and people of color, and expropriate land. Simultaneously, though, she investigates how these devices were adapted by peoples and activists outside the West seeking to resist European and American power. She describes how Tunisia generated the first modern Islamic constitution in 1861, quickly suppressed, but an influence still on the Arab Spring; how Africanus Horton of Sierra Leone-inspired by the American Civil War-devised plans for self-governing nations in West Africa; and how Japans Meiji constitution of 1889 came to compete with Western constitutionalism as a model for Indian, Chinese, and Ottoman nationalists and reformers.Vividly written and handsomely illustrated, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen is an absorbing work that-with its pageant of formative wars, powerful leaders, visionary lawmakers and committed rebels-retells the story of constitutional government and the evolution of ideas of what it means to be modern. 80 black-and-white illustrations. Seller Inventory # DADAX0871403161
Buy New
US$ 22.68
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Brand New Copy. Seller Inventory # BBB_new0871403161
Buy New
US$ 20.09
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!. Seller Inventory # OTF-9780871403162
Buy New
US$ 23.01
Convert currency
Seller Image
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World (Hardback or Cased Book)
Published by
Liveright Publishing Corporation 3/30/2021
(2021)
ISBN 10: 0871403161
ISBN 13: 9780871403162
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 3
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World 0.8. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780871403162
Buy New
US$ 27.23
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Buy for Great customer experience. Seller Inventory # GoldenDragon0871403161
Buy New
US$ 23.99
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World Format: Hardcover
Published by
WW Norton Publishers
(2021)
ISBN 10: 0871403161
ISBN 13: 9780871403162
New
Hardcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Brand New. Seller Inventory # 9780871403162
Buy New
US$ 23.63
Convert currency
Seller Image
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Colley, Linda [Hardcover ]
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9780871403162
Buy New
US$ 28.13
Convert currency
Seller Image
Gun, the Ship, and the Pen : Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 40973501-n
Buy New
US$ 27.32
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. . Seller Inventory # 52GZZZ00C9JF_ns
Buy New
US$ 30.41
Convert currency