Title: How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
Author: Arthur Herman
Language: English
Published: 2007
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780609606353
Extension: EPUB
Size: 547 KB
Subjects: General, Europe, History, Social Science, Great Britain, British & Irish history, Modern, History - General History, Scottish, Anthropology, Cultural, Ethnic Studies, European history, History: World, Scots, Regional History, Europe - Great Britain - General, National characteristics, Scotland, 18th Century, World history, Civilization, Cultural studies, Foreign countries, United Kingdom, Civilization; Modern, Scots - Foreign countries, Enlightenment - Scotland, Scotland Intellectual life, Europe - Great Britain - Scotland, Enlightenment, Scotland - Intellectual life, Enlightenment Scotland, Civilization; Modern Scottish influences, Scots Foreign countries, Scotland - Civilization, European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland), Modern - Scottish influences, Modern Scottish influences, Scotland - History, Scottish influences, Scotland Civilization, History of specific subjects, Intellectual life, History Of Civilization And Culture (General), National characteristics; Scottish, Scot, Civilization; Modern - Scottish influences
Categories: History, Nonfiction
An exciting account of the origins of the modern world
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.
Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong.
How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William "Braveheart" Wallace to James Bond.
And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots-or the modern West-in the same way again.
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