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

Hardcover, 2001

Call number

DA772 .H53

Publication

New York: Crown Publishers (Random House imprint), 2001.

Physical description

viii, 392 p.; 24 cm

Notes

CONTENTS:

Part One : Epiphany.
One — The New Jerusalem.

Two — A Trap of Their Own Making.

Three — The Proper Study of Mankind I.

Four — The Proper Study of Mankind II.

FIve — A Land Divided.

Six — Last Stand.

Seven — Profitable Ventures.

Eight — A Select Society : Adam Smith and His Friends.

Part Two : Diaspora.
Nine — "That Great Design: " Scots in America.

Ten — Light from the North : Socts, Liberals, and Reform.

Eleven — The Last Minstrel : Sir Walter Scott and the Highland Revival.

Twelve — Practical Matters : Scots in Science and Industry.

Thirteen — The Sun Never Sets : Scots and the British Empire.

Fourteen — Self-Made Men : Scots in the United States.

Barcode

001a088000

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