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.Īnd no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots-or the modern West-in the same way again. 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. 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. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. This lively bestseller traces the history of Scotlands many contributions to our culture, drawing on the most recent research of scholars and historians to demonstrate just how central the Scots have been throughout the rise of the West. My memory did not let me down: the early parts of the book remain some of the most lively popular history I have read, and Herman does a much better job than. 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. Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. An exciting account of the origins of the modern world
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