Herman begins in the nasty 17th century and guides us with swift intelligence and admirable command of his sources through some complicated history: the National Covenant (1638), the Stuarts, Cromwell (whose singular virtue, Herman notes, is that he was hated by everyone in the British Isles). Joseph McCarthy, 1999, etc.) may one day have his visage carved into a Scottish Mt. If enough Scots read this paean to their ancestors, Herman (History/George Mason Univ. | Scotland - Civilization.The Scots here get all the credit, for everything from humanistic philosophy to capitalism to the steam engine to Agent 007. 362-376) and index.Ĭivilization, Modern - Scottish influences. "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."-BOOK JACKET.
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.". But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned the respect of the rest of the world for its crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics - contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since." "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. "Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. How the Scots invented the Modern World : the true story of how western Europe's poorest nation created our world & everything in it / Arthur Herman Book Bib ID
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