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

Best Books of the Year: Financial Times, The Economist
Book of the Year: The Leaflet (International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism)
Longlisted 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.