A review by bupdaddy
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Arthur Herman

2.0

See, because THE UNITED KINGDOM is the most important country in the history of everything, and because a bunch of people from there are SCOTTISH, Scotland invented the modern world! Like, the United States had a bunch of Scottish people, and they declared independence from Great Britain, which was not coincidence, but causative! And Canada and Australia were the most loyal colonies of Great Britain, and they had a bunch of Scottish people, and that was a direct causation too! Scots both are loyal and break away. And every good idea ever had is traceable to the University of Glasgow, and you're not going to believe this, but James Bond is half Scottish! And Sherlock Holmes is based on a professor from the University of Glasgow!

Scotland was the first modern country. That's where the enlightenment happened, and nowhere else, unless it was because there were Scottish people there. We clear?