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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Filling a crucial void in our understanding of world history, Linda Colley reconfigures the rise of the modern world over three centuries through the advent of written constitutions. Her work challenges accepted narratives, focusing on rulers like Catherine the Great, who wrote her enlightened Nakaz years before the French Revolution; African visionaries like Sierra Leone's James Africanus Beale Horton; and Tunisias's soldier-constitutionalist Khayr-al-Din,...
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