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

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An exciting account of the origins of themodern world

Whoformed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas ofdemocracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and authorArthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesScotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature,education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that haveformed and nurtured the modern West ever since.

Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuriesof Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Churchof Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the ScottishEnlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution;and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the Americanfrontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong.

How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creatingthe basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series ofremarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegieand Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporaryculture, 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.