<i>The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World</i> by Linda Colley

Kennedy, Dane

doi:10.1162/jinh_r_01737

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“…However, constitutional progress was never a one‐sided Western business but an interregional and mutual process of copy and paste, pick and mix, melt and combine (Colley, 2021, 136f, 412). The first constitutional drafts and assemblies did not come from the white male bourgeois classes in Philadelphia and Paris, but from the European periphery in Corsica 1755, the Constituzione of Pasquale Paoli, a soldier and legislator, as many later revolutionaries a man of the gun and the pen.…”

Section: Emergence Of World Society (1750–1850)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…From day one, constitutional fever spreads like a pandemic, accelerated by the rapid development of ever cheaper dissemination media, which had already improved greatly in the 18th century. News, soldiers, slaves, weapons, goods of all kinds, constitutional blueprints and revolutionary manifestos are fed into the communications networks ever more rapidly, in ever larger print runs, along ever more densely interconnected transport routes (Colley, 2021, 115–154; Osterhammel, 2010). The highest profit rates are made in slave trade, intensify exploitation rates, accelerate the spread of modern chattel slavery.…”

Section: Emergence Of World Society (1750–1850)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first constitutional drafts and assemblies did not come from the white male bourgeois classes in Philadelphia and Paris, but from the European periphery in Corsica 1755, the Constituzione of Pasquale Paoli, a soldier and legislator, as many later revolutionaries a man of the gun and the pen. The next move of constitutional progress comes from Eurasian Russia 1767, the Nakaz , Catherine II's Great Instruction , drafted by a commission that was almost as socially, nationally, racially, and sexually diverse as the streets of Paris or Philadelphia are today (Colley, 2021, 16–25, 57–81).…”

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War in World Society: Towards a new order of global constitutionalism?

Brunkhorst

2023

Global Policy

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In world society, all wars are world wars and so is the present war in Ukraine even if the use of violence is broadly restricted to the Ukrainian area (a restriction imposed clearly imposed by global politics). World society emerged between 1750 and 1850 together with the first world wars and world revolutions that were fought on all continents and oceans (1). There is no society beyond world society any longer. The world society pushes (but by no means sufficiently) (a) law and politics to institutionalise a world constitution and (b) social actors to culturally symbolise global mindsets, world views and normativity (2). Yet, only a second wave of world revolutions and world wars between 1900 and 1950 caused the rise of autonomous world law that enabled a now interrupted but still lasting global process of fully inclusive democratisation (3). However, the rise of world law in 1945 was followed by its fall after 1989, and the present wars in Ukraine and beyond come close to a complete destruction of world law. There is only a small chance to end the use of violence in Ukraine that cannot and should not lead to sufficient victory of one of the warring parties but to a reconstruction and new foundation of world law and the constitutional order of the world. The alternative is not the national state but failed states and anomia (4).

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War in World Society: Towards a new order of global constitutionalism?

Brunkhorst

2023

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“…Situémonos siempre. No se le pida al foralismo vasco lo que no da el constitucionalismo mal llamado liberal, el cual iba más de poderes, internos y externos, que de derechos (Colley, 2021;Koskenniemi, 2021). Con todo y, en suma, para el caso vasco-navarro en España, el foralismo ha sido un elemento especialmente resistente de lo que podría decirse una constitución preconstitucional, con poderes menores y de por sí problemática (Agüero, 2021).…”

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Tradición foral y Estado soberano (Tlaxcala, Sudáfrica, Euskadi)

Clavero

2022

eunomia

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Para ubicar comparativamente el foralismo vasco, este ensayo propone la colación de un par de casos: el singular de foralismo histórico en pleno corazón del México actual, concretamente en Tlaxcala, y el menos peculiar del derecho consuetudinario comunitario en el seno de Sudáfrica. El primero nos revela principalmente que el foralismo puede diluirse en el federalismo. El segundo nos enfrenta al asunto de mayor calado no ya de la mera tradición jurídica, sino del título histórico al derecho propio implicando autogobierno de la comunidad. A la luz de las perspectivas que así se abren y ante la negligencia imperante, es como aquí se aborda el caso del foralismo vasco en tiempo constitucional.

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“…108 As Linda Colley has recently argued, the second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a renewed attention to such constitutions as written texts, spurred on by new forms of global warfare such as that rapidly escalating in South India. 109 In this case, we see the process of abstraction whereby the lawfulness of Mughal documents was projected back to posit a constitution that might underlie and validate their legality.…”

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The Power of Parwanas: Indo-Persian Grants and the Making of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Southern India

Hodges

Chatterjee²

2022

Law hist. rev.

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This article examines Persian-language orders—parwanas—issued by regimes that succeeded the Mughal Empire in South Asia, to European trading companies. Focussing in particular on the mid-eighteenth-century exchanges between the Nizam of Hyderabad; the Nawab of Arcot; and the French Compagnie des Indes, we see how Mughal-style parwanas, or sub-imperial orders, previously used to give instructions or to make or withdraw grants, were transformed into a form of political currency. They were now used to exchange military and fiscal resources between South Asian state-builders and militarised European corporations, and to secure political legitimacy for all within a putative Mughal imperium. Moreover, the legal fiction of Mughal sovereignty led to a grants race, such that rivals—European and South Asian—sought more and more parwanas, while also querying the legitimacy of authorities that issued them. The very fragility of the Mughal empire and the lability of the political landscape in eighteenth-century South Asia was thus generative of prolific Persian legal documentation, as well as its rewiring to novel uses. European empire-builders negotiated this legal landscape with only partial literacy, consequently fetishizing the material aspects and ceremonial accompaniments of Persian legal documents, and according them power beyond their immediate substance.

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

Cited by 8 publications

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War in World Society: Towards a new order of global constitutionalism?

War in World Society: Towards a new order of global constitutionalism?

Tradición foral y Estado soberano (Tlaxcala, Sudáfrica, Euskadi)

The Power of Parwanas: Indo-Persian Grants and the Making of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Southern India

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