Name: How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of how Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created our World and Everything in it (en Inglés)
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Author: Herman, Arthur
ISBN: 9780609809990

portada How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of how Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created our World and Everything in it (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Arthur Herman

Editorial

Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Año

2002

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

480

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.1 x 13.2 x 2.8 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0609809997

ISBN13

9780609809990

Categorías

Escocia
Historia de europa
Historia social y cultural

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of how Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created our World and Everything in it (en Inglés)

Arthur Herman (Autor) · Crown Publishing Group (NY) · Tapa Blanda

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An exciting account of the origins of the modern world 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. Herman has charted a fascinating journey 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 modern 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 Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie 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 modern West--in the same way again.