About J.A.W. Gunn J.A.W. Gunn is Sir Edward Peacock Professor Emeritus of Political Studies, Queen's University, and the author of Beyond Liberty and Property: The Process of Self-Recognition in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought. Books by J.A.W. Gunn When the French Tried to be British Party, Opposition, and the Quest for Civil Disagreement, 1814-1848 by (author) J.A.W. Gunn