The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World By Linda Colley

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New York Times Book Review • Editors’ ChoiceVivid 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 accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between the making of constitutions and the making of war. In the process, Linda Colley both reappraises famous constitutions and recovers those that have been marginalized but were central to the rise of a modern world.She brings to the fore neglected sites, such as Corsica, with its pioneering constitution of 1755, and tiny Pitcairn Island in the Pacific, the first place on the globe permanently to enfranchise women. She highlights the role of unexpected players, such as Catherine the Great of Russia, who was experimenting with constitutional techniques with her enlightened Nakaz decades before the Founding Fathers framed the American constitution. Written constitutions are usually examined in relation to individual states, but Colley focuses on how they crossed boundaries, spreading into six continents by 1918 and aiding the rise of empires as well as nations. She also illumines their place not simply in law and politics but also in wider cultural histories, and their intimate connections with print, literary creativity, and the rise of the novel.Colley shows how—while advancing epic revolutions and enfranchising white males—constitutions frequently served over the long nineteenth century to marginalize indigenous people, exclude women and people of color, and expropriate land. Simultaneously, though, she investigates how these devices were adapted by peoples and activists outside the West seeking to resist European and American power. She describes how Tunisia generated the first modern Islamic constitution in 1861, quickly suppressed, but an influence still on the Arab Spring; how Africanus Horton of Sierra Leone—inspired by the American Civil War—devised plans for self-governing nations in West Africa; and how Japan’s Meiji constitution of 1889 came to compete with Western constitutionalism as a model for Indian, Chinese, and Ottoman nationalists and reformers.Vividly written and handsomely illustrated, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen is an absorbing work that—with its pageant of formative wars, powerful leaders, visionary lawmakers and committed rebels—retells the story of constitutional government and the evolution of ideas of what it means to be modern.

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In the United States the writing and ratification of the Constitution in the late 1780s is usually studied in isolation, as a largely American effort in which any outside influence is limited to some contributions here and there from Englishmen like John Locke and Frenchmen like Montesquieu. Perhaps that's why it took a British born historian long resident in the United States like Linda Colley to produce a truly universal examination of constitutions.Among the first and most valuable of Colley's insights is the strong role warfare played in the development of constitutions. As rulers found themselves embroiled in longer and larger conflicts they needed to find some way to ensure that they had plenty of support from the citizens who were expected to supply men to fight the battles, weapons and other equipment for those men to fight with, supplies to keep those men fed, clothed, and reasonably content while doing the fighting, and of course the taxes that would pay for all those men and their supplies. The rulers found that a great way to ensure that vital support was to offer power to those fighting men and taxpayers: a role in government and a voice in policy. As time went on and wars became more complex and "hybridized", fighting on both land and sea, the need to ensure support grew larger, and thus the need for constitutions grew.I really enjoyed this book. As a former high school history teacher myself I was naturally well acquainted with the details of the writing and ratification of the US Constitution, and I also knew a good bit about constitutional developments in other nations. Colley showed me an enormous amount of new material about which I knew little or nothing, enlightening me on the roles played by characters as disparate as Catherine the Great, Pasquale Paoli of Corsica, and Pomare II of Tahiti, among many others. I was fascinated to read of constitutional developments on Pitcairn Island and other places, and to learn of the long term consequences of the Meiji Reforms, not just in Japan but throughout Asia and beyond.Colley is an excellent writer, and I really enjoyed the flow of her narratives. This is an important work of history that should be long remembered.

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