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How the Scots Invented the Modern World : The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
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Overview
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. This book is not just about Scotland: it is an exciting account of the origins of the modern world. No one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots-or the modern West-in the same way again.
Details
- ISBN-13: 9781501931086
- Publisher: Recorded Books
- Publish Date: Sept 2016
- Author: Arthur Herman
- Narrator: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duration: 18:20:26