The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World PB_Gift_Guide Hailed as one of the

Hailed as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time (Time Magazine) and as a classic of New Journalism

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who chose to die by hemlock poisoning rather than live on without the freedom to think for himself

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The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World PB_Gift_Guide Hailed as one of theLonglisted for the Cundill History Prize Profiled in The New Yorker New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice Vivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions. 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