In this prize-winning book, Linda Colley interweaves political, military, and social history to recount how England, Wales, and Scotland joined together to form a new British nation and how heroes and politicians, artists and writers,...

A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close...

„The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World“ von Linda Colley untersucht die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Kriegen, der Entwicklung von Verfassungen und der Entstehung moderner Staaten. Colley...