How the Scots Invented the Modern World

How did a tiny country plagued by famine, poverty, misery, and misfortune invent the enduring ideals of modern capitalist democracy? Find out in Arthur Herman's best-selling How the Scots Invented the Modern World, an entertaining and illuminating history of the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century. With innovations in philosophy, education, commerce, engineering, industry, architecture, town planning, soldiering, administration, medicine, and even tourism, the Scots embarked on not…