The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World PB_Gift_Guide Straddling Ivy’s contemporary suburban town

Straddling Ivy’s contemporary suburban town and her mother’s magic-drenched 1990s Chicago

of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation

Hailed as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time (Time Magazine) and as a classic of New Journalism

But as Senka travels deeper into the Underwild

dangerous vulnerability

The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World PB_Gift_Guide Straddling Ivy’s contemporary suburban townLonglisted 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