How the Scots invented modernity

From: The Scotsman | Date: February 2, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The Scottish Enlightenment

by Arthur Herman

Fourth Estate pounds 20

Review by George Kerevan

CURRENTLY the shelves of our remaining bookshops are positively groaning under the weight of a raft of new books on Scottish history. These include Michael Fry's excellent The Scottish Empire, The New Penguin History of Scotland and the book that has created the biggest stir on both sides of the Atlantic: Arthur Herman's The Scottish Enlightenment. Why this fuss about the Scots?

Herman thinks he knows. Herman is a respected American historian who co-ordinates the Western Heritage Programme at the ...

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