How the Scots Invented the Mode World: The True Story of How Weste Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
September 24, 2002

by: Arthur Herman (Author)
Publisher: Crown; Reprint edition (September 24, 2002)

Language: English
Paperback: 480 pages

ISBN-10: 0609809997

ISBN-13: 9780609809990

Book Description

An exciting account of the origins of the mode world
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our mode 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 mode West ever since.
Herman has charted a fascinating jouey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our mode idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. 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.
How the Scots Invented the Mode World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of mode life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Caegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond.
And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the mode West—in the same way again.