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Great Scots!(How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and 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, by Arthur Herman (Crown, 392 pp., $25.95)
'I am a typical Irishman," George Bernard Shaw once said. "My family came from Yorkshire." That the north of England should have contributed to the creation of such an idiosyncratic Irishman as Shaw is an illustration of one of history's truths, that Providence relishes a paradox. In his new book, Arthur Herman examines another instance of the same truth; he tries to understand why the most illuminating philosophers of what is often called English liberty grew up in the environs of Edinburgh ...
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