How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
by Arthur Herman
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Author: Arthur HermanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-11-27
ISBN: 0609606352
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Crown
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Book Review: Scotland's contribution to the world - outstanding,factual
Summary: 5 Stars
As a Scots-American, I can relate to author Arthur Herman's outstanding in-depth review of what Scots in the past have contributed, and in fact still do,to the progress in every field of endeavor that affects the whole world. I see now only too clearly the shortcomings in information I experienced in 5 years of history classes in high school in Scotland - a course replete with inanities of dates, English royalty and the like. Herman tells it as it is and gives all the facts in a smooth transitional way covering many centuries of events. Makes me proud of my Scots heritage and I can recommend this book for all who want to know and understand the origins of Western freedoms and the impact that Scots have made in engineering, science, mathematics, religious beliefs, humanities et al.
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