The gun, the ship, and the pen warfare, constitutions, and the making of the modern world
"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...
| Main Author: | Colley, Linda (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The multiple trajectories of war
- Old Europe, new ideas
- Out of war, into revolutions
- Armies of legislators
- Exception and engine
- Those not meant to win, those unwilling to lose
- The light, the dark and the long 1860s
- Break out.