Linda Colley

The Gun, the Ship and the Pen

Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World

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Produktbeschreibung

Award-winning historian Linda Colley re-examines the making of the modern world through the advance of written constitutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books Ltd
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 127mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9781846684982
• ISBN-10: 1846684986
• Artikelnr.: 62535496

Autorenporträt

Linda Colley is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University, and a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. Her seven books include Britons, winner of the Wolfson Prize, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh, a New York Times top ten book of the year, and Acts of Union and Disunion, based on a series of talks commissioned by BBC Radio 4. She divides her time between the USA and Europe.

Rezensionen

A virtuoso global study of how nations were formed and constitutions written upends the familiar narrative at every turn ... As with all great history books, the big picture is here, but so is the telling detail, the astute comparison, the arresting and memorable turn of phrase, the suggestive moral for our own times. ... A superb retelling of the past, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen will surely make us rethink our present and future Miles Taylor Guardian