The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World PB_Gift_Guide only to meet again under

only to meet again under the shadow of the Third Reich—and then again at the Nuremburg trials—they find themselves divided by war and differing ideals

it becomes clear that in order to emerge from erasure

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 only to meet again underLonglisted 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