![]() ![]() ![]() He lucidly summarizes the ideas, discoveries, and achievements that made this small country facing on the North Atlantic an inspiration and driving force in world history. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned the respect of the rest of the world for its crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics-contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since.Īrthur Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It Feature How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It Review ![]()
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