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Book Review of How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything In It

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"Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots...made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics - contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since." ... from the book cover