Linda Colley

“Strange, awkwardly written, and even shocking, it broke new ground in more than geographical and observational terms.”
― Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

“If Bolívar’s increasing melancholy by the 1820s appears particularly marked (‘the only thing one can do in America’, he wrote morosely towards the end of the decade, ‘is emigrate’), this was in part because he had fought too hard for too long, and because he was a man who luxuriated in words. But it was also the case that, from the outset, Bolívar – who was as much a voracious reader as Napoleon – had devoted serious thought to the question of what kinds of political systems might effectually replace Spanish imperial rule in South America while also guaranteeing order and stability.”
― Linda Colley, The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World