Again, the Scots
A while ago I was
dubious that
How the Scots Invented the Modern World proved its claim.
Ken MacLeod's
The Early Days of a Better Nation today describes early eighteenth-century Scotland as the hinge "between the empires of capitalist England and absolutist
France". This is his summary of
Neil
Davidson's
Discovering the Scottish Revolution 1692 - 1746, q.v.
So wrote clew in
History (18th c.).
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