How The Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It by Arthur Herman ISBN 13: 9781606710494

MJF Books, 2001. Hardcover. Very good. 0x0x0. Hardcover in dust jacket, light shelf and edge wear, else a nice copy!

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New York: Mjf Books, 2001. First. Tight. New York: Mjf Books, 2001. First. This book is in new condition inside and out does not appear to have been read 472 pp.

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For most of it's history, Scotland was a small, impoverished country with a reputation for violence, ignorance, and superstition. But suddenly, in the 18th century, it transformed itself into an intellectual superpower, providing the world with some of its greatest philosophers, architects, scientists, and men of letters. How did this remarkable phenomenon occur?
In How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Arthur Herman unravels the mystery of how Scotland quickly went from almost medieval levels of poverty and oppression to the highest literacy rate in Europe. Combining a seamless historical narrative with an impressive accumulation of evidence, Herman shows how Scotland provided Western civilization with some of its most enduring ideals, including democracy, free speech, equal opportunity, and universal education. The Scots, Herman writes, are the true inventors of the modern social sciences, including anthropology, history, sociology, and economics.
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MJF Bks.. 2001. vg. Hardcover. ISBN:9781606710494 472pp including index; red cover with gilt lettering on spine; dust jacket is in new clear protective mylar; pp browning slightly .