How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It

An exciting account of the origins of the modern world

Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author A…

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