362-376) and index.Ĭivilization, Modern - Scottish influences. This work presents the history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world. '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.'-BOOK JACKET. Authors: Arthur Herman Full Title: How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europes Poorest Nation Created Our World and. 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.'.

But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned the respect of the rest of the world for its crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics - contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since.' '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. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The true story of how western Europes poorest nation created our world & everything in it is a non-fiction. 'Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. How The Scots Invented The Modern World The author explores the reasons behind the expansive exodus of the Scots from the 17th-19th Centuries that brought their intimate relationship in politics, education and Christianity with them to the other reaches of the World. How the Scots invented the Modern World : the true story of how western Europe's poorest nation created our world & everything in it / Arthur Herman Book Bib ID

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