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Academics focus on Scots as pioneers
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THE US professor Arthur Herman was the guest speaker at a lively
public debate last night which centred on the contentious question
raised by his recent book: Did Scots invent the modern world?
Professor Herman's work, The Scottish Enlightenment: How the Scots
Invented the Modern World, has drawn praise and criticism in equal
measures and opinion during the sell-out three-hour discussion, at
The Scotsman offices, was no less divided.
Prof Herman, of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC,
maintains the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th and early 19th
centuries uniquely formed the ...
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