How the Scots Invented the Modern World

History of Civilization & Culture

Author: Arthur Herman

Who formed the first modern nation?,Who created the first literate society?,Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism?,The Scots.,,Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned….Read More

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