《战争、法律与现代世界的形成》【内容简介】
现代时期，不同国家纷纷采用成文法律作为政治工具，推动变革，这一趋势背后有深刻的历史联系。本书以独特的视角，追溯了现代时期七年战争等跨大陆战争，回顾了海地、美国、法国、俄国、日本等国的立法活动，分析了这一时期军事压力与关乎权利的立法之间的相互影响；展现了印刷业、出版业的普及和远距离交通工具的发展如何促进成文法律在不同国家和大陆传播，推动权利发展和政治变革；作者也指出，在发展的趋势下，成文法律也会成为排斥妇女及殖民地居民权利的工具，而一些非西方国家借鉴成文法律以巩固国家认同，抵抗西方的殖民扩张。可以说，现代世界的形成，就是各国创制成文法律，推动权利发展和国家变革的历史过程。
【著者简介】
琳达·科利（LindaColley），英国国家学术院院士、英国皇家文学学会会员、欧洲科学院院士、剑桥大学基督学院首位女研究员，现为普林斯顿大学历史系教授，研究专长为英国史、帝国史、1700年后的全球史。著有《英国人》《伊丽莎白·马什的磨难》等。1993年获沃尔夫森历史奖。
War, Law, and the Making of the Modern World
In modern times, different countries have adopted written laws as political tools to promote change, which has a deep historical connection behind it. The book traces transcontinental wars such as the Seven Years' War in the modern era from a unique perspective, reviewing the legislative activities of Haiti, the United States, France, Russia, and Japan, and analyzing the interplay between military pressure and rights-related legislation during this period; Shows how the spread of printing and publishing and the development of long-distance transportation facilitated the spread of written laws across countries and continents, promoting the development of rights and political change; The author also points out that under the trend of development, written laws will also become a tool to exclude the rights of women and colonial residents, and some non-Western countries learn from written laws to consolidate national identity and resist Western colonial expansion. It can be said that the formation of the modern world is the historical process in which countries create written laws to promote the development of rights and national reform.
【 Introduction of author 】
LindaColley (LindaColley), a fellow of the British National Academy, a member of the Royal Society of Literature, a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, the first female fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, is now a professor of history at Princeton University, specializing in British history, imperial history, and global history after 1700. He is the author of "The Englishman" and "The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh". He received the Wolfson Prize for History in 1993.
