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. LC is a brilliant historian. She starts here from the Corsican constitution of 1755.
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978184668497511/03/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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The author's ancestors made their fortunes through slaves and sugar. The fortune was lost but the letters were preserved: this is a powerful investigation of an Imperial past which is widely... read more
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Islands of banishment approached through three lives: New Caledonia in the South Pacific, where Louise Michel, grandmother of French anarchy and a leader in theParis Commune, was sent for s... read more
Exiles: Three Island Journeys
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Explores the world and campaigns of the late-medieval imperialists, the Christian adventurers whose mind-sets are as remote to us today as were those of the Aztecs and Incas to them.
Conquistadores
Hardback £30.00