How the Scots Invented the Modern World : The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It How the Scots Invented the Modern World : The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

How the Scots Invented the Modern World : The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

Arthur Herman
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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
RIM
Robert Ian Mackenzie
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
18:21
hr min
RELEASED
2016
September 16
PUBLISHER
Recorded Books, Inc.
SIZE
828.2
MB

Customer Reviews

4020JohnDeere ,

Author became bored

Really enjoyed the history presentation. The author needed help or a coauthor to take it into the 1800 to present day.

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