How The Scots Invented The Modern World by Arthur Herman
The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
A sweeping argument that the Scottish Enlightenment and its distinctive institutions, values, and inventors punched well above their demographic weight to shape the modern world: through philosophers and economists who formalized empiricism and free-market ideas, through scientists and engineers who advanced chemistry and steam power, and through a network of universities, churches, banks, and colonial administrators that exported literacy, legal practices, and practical innovation across the British Empire and into the United States. The narrative links a Protestant, meritocratic culture and a culture of civic improvement to social mobility, entrepreneurialism, and the professional corps that built modern industry, finance, education, and government, portraying Scotland’s thinkers and expatriates as pivotal architects of modern capitalism, democratic institutions, and technological progress.
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- 2001
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- American
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- English
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