num_pages: 480
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.
language: English
title: How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything In It
titlecomplete: How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything In It
characters: John Witherspoon, Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, Adam Smith, philosopher, Walter Scott, Robert Burns, Hugh Blair, Robert Adam, Thomas Aikenhead, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Reid, John Adam, Dugald Stewart, Adam Ferguson, Joseph Black, James Wilson, James Watt, James Adam, Henry Brougham, Francis Hutcheson, John Knox, Henry Cockburn, David Hume, Allan Ramsay, poet
genres: British Literature, Historical, History, Philosophy, European History, World History, Scotland, Science, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 5937
places: Scotland
publisher: Random House