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020			_a9781846684982
028			_a: Savera Book Distributors _b: 4754, Akarshan Bhawan, 23 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi _c: 26-27/CRB/682 _d: 25/09/2026
082			_a342 COL
100			_aColley, Linda.
245			_aThe Gun the Ship & the Pen _c/ Linda Colley.
260			_a, London _b: Profile Books _c, 2021.
300			_a502p. _c: 18cm.
365			_b699
520			_a'Colley takes you on intellectual journeys you wouldn't think to take on your own, and when you arrive you wonder that you never did it before' - David Aaronovitch, the Times 'A global history of remarkable depth, imagination and insight' Tony Barber, Financial Times Summer Books Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives. Both monarchs and radicals play a role, from Catherine the Great of Russia, with her remarkable Nakaz, to Sierra Leone's James Africanus Horton, to Tunisia's Khayr-al-Din, a creator of the first modern Islamic constitution. Throughout, Colley demonstrates how constitutions evolved in tandem with warfare, and how they have functioned to advance empire as well as promote nations, and worked to exclude as well as liberate. Whether reinterpreting Japan's momentous 1889 constitution, or exploring the significance of the first constitution to enfranchise all adult women on Pitcairn Island in the Pacific in 1838, this is one of the most original global histories in decades.
650			_aThe Gun
650			_aThe Ship
650			_aThe Pen
700			_aLinda Colley.
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