It is a one of its kind book and it speaks about the evolution of Constitutions all around the world. It has got some rave reviews, and deservedly so. They discuss the connections between the making of war and the making of constitutions, how innovations in print and transportation technology enabled the spread of constitutions across the globe, and how non-Western states and cultures adapted Western constitutions to suit the needs of their polities and cultures. The book’s name is The Gun, The Ship and the Pen written by Linda Colley. Copiously researched and elegantly written, Colleys treatise goes beyond the usual Anglo-American focus. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University, to discuss her new book, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World. The Gun, the Ship and the Pen is an ambitiously wide-ranging account of the forces that propelled the writing of constitutions - documents that have defined the modern world - from the middle of the 18th century to today.- 'The Economist'.
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Linda Colley, Shelby M.C.
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