How The Scots Invented The Modern World : The True Story Of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World And Everything In It

Author: Arthur Herman

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Price : 39.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780609809990
Publisher : The Crown Publishing Group
Imprint : Three Rivers Press
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Weight (g) : 0.334751
Publication date : 01 September 2001
Dimensions : 1.12 Inches X 5.19 Inches X 7.93 Inches
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Author : Arthur Herman
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 941.1
Reading Level : near fine
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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 eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics

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