![]() ![]() Along the way novices meet a who’s who of early constitutional history, and specialists encounter some relatively unknown historical actors who ought to rate a mention in future lists. The book’s many stops also include familiar sights such as Philadelphia in 1787, Paris in 1789, Haiti in 1801, Cádiz in 1812, Angostura (today Ciudad Bolívar) in 1819, and Tokyo in 1889. Petersburg in 1765 with an enlightened empress, speeding through Eidsvoll in 1814 with beleaguered lawmakers, stopping by Pitcairn island in 1838 with a Scottish captain, voyaging to Sydney in 1840 with an English noble, backtracking to Tahiti in 1817 with its Christian king, then zooming to Moscow in 2019 with a pro-democracy activist. It hopscotches across dozens of unusual places and personalities and periods, beginning midway at Istanbul in 1908 with a Chinese scholar, sailing back to Corsica in 1755 with a rebel leader, docking at St. ![]() Princeton historian Linda Colley’s latest book is a riveting retelling of constitution-making’s early, worldwide dawnings. ![]()
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