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How the Scots Invented the Modern World

Written by: Arthur Herman
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
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Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the 18th and 19th 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. This book is not just about Scotland: it is an exciting account of the origins of the modern world. No one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots - or the modern West - in the same way again.

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history should be talk like this. l eould have found interest, or perhaps have to grow up enough to think about who came before

how little l knew

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Very.... Scholarly..... Not what I was looking for.

I'm sure it's cool for some... But not me.

Dry, and scholarly

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