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. No one who reads this book will ever view the Scots--or the modern West--in the same way again.
Arthur Herman, 2001
Paperback, Very Good
472 pages
360g
20.5 x 13.5 x 3 cm