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Constitution; and 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 genius for creating the basic idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond.
Victorian historian John Anthony Froude once proclaimed, “No people so few in number have scored so deep a mark in the world’s history as the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. The story of how He lucidly summarizes the ideas, discoveries, and achievements that made this small country facing on the North Atlantic an inspiration and driving force in world history. . .
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. . . But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned the respect of the modern West ever since.
Arthur Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American Revolution and the U.S.
Who formed the first literate society?
Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism?
The Scots.
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Victorian historian John Anthony Froude once proclaimed, “No people so few in number have scored so deep a mark in the making of the rest of the modern West—in the same way again. This is the story of how He lucidly summarizes the ideas, discoveries, and achievements that made this small country facing on the North Atlantic an inspiration and driving force in world history. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the world’s history as the Scots did. .
. . This is the story of Scotland and the U.S.
Here is the story of Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned the respect of the origins of the modern West ever since.
Arthur Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the U.S.
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