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03152aam a2200493 i 4500 001 5E41E76891E611EB93ECBDD551ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210331010017 008 210315t20212021nyua e b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020041675 020 $a 0871403161 020 $a 9780871403162 035 $a (OCoLC)1241709634 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c RV8 $d RV8 $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 082 00 $a 342 $2 23 100 1 $a Colley, Linda, $e author. 245 14 $a The gun, the ship, and the pen : $b warfare, constitutions, and the making of the modern world / $c Linda Colley. 246 30 $a Warfare, constitutions, and the making of the modern world 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2021] 300 $a 502 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a 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. -- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-475) and index. 650 0 $a Constitutional law $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Constitutional history. 650 0 $a War (International law) 650 0 $a Military art and science. 650 0 $a Implied powers (Constitutional law) 941 $a 13 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012940.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012012055.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010021702.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909063516.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220506012850.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20211201010559.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20210728011005.0 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20210716131353.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20210702015542.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20210612010307.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210508010149.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210504013853.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210331010102.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E41E76891E611EB93ECBDD551ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search