TY - BOOK AU - Herman,Arthur TI - How the Scots invented the Modern World: the true story of how western Europe's poorest nation created our world & everything in it SN - 0609809997 U1 - 941.1 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Three Rivers Press KW - LEMB KW - CIVILIZACION MODERNA KW - INFLUENCIAS ESCOCESAS KW - ESCOCIA KW - VIDA INTELECTUAL KW - CIVILIZACIÓN N2 - Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ER -