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How the Scots Invented the Modern World

How the Scots Invented the Modern World

by Arthur Herman

  • HISTORY
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 472 PAGES

The emigration of Scottish peoples and ideas is the subject of this bestselling history. Herman argues (convincingly) that many of the greatest political, intellectual and technological innovations of the 18th and 19th centuries came from the Scots.  (SCT65, $16.00)

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