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The gun, the ship, and the pen : warfare, constitutions, and the making of the modern world

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text The gun, the ship, and the pen : warfare, constitutions, and the making of the modern world

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"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 reco... Read more
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.

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502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 342 COL in Adult Non-fiction Available

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