![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written with wit, erudition and clarity, The Scottish Enlightenment claims the Scots' rightful place in the history of the western world. Hermans book provides a convincing and compelling case for his assertion that the Scots created the modern civilized values America and the Western world. ![]() He follows the lives and work of thinkers such as Adam Smith and David Hume, writers such as Burns and Boswell, as well as architects, technicians and inventors, and traces their legacy into the twentieth century. more Get A Copy Kindle Store 14. Within one hundred years, the nation that began the eighteenth century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved into Europe's most literate society, producing an idea of modernity that has shaped much of civilisation as we know it. 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. 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 politicscontributions that have formed and nurtured the. Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves.' Irvine Welsh, GuardianĪ dramatic and intriguing history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world.Īrthur Herman argues that Scotland's turbulent history, from William Wallace to the Presbyterian Lords of the Covenant, laid the foundations for 'the Scottish miracle'. ![]()
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