How the Scots Invented the Modern World : The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
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 formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. --
472 pages
English edition · First published 2001 by Three Rivers Press · ISBN 9780609809990
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