How the Scots Invented the Modern World
The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
by Arthur Herman
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in About Scotland, Most Recommended Books, and History.
Who formed the first literate society Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics?contributions that have...
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