How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It

An engaging narrative history that reveals how Scotland, one of Europe's poorest and most backward nations, became the intellectual and economic powerhouse that created the modern world. From the Scottish Enlightenment to the invention of the modern economic, political, and social systems, Arthur Herman demonstrates how the Scots have influenced virtually every aspect of modern life.