A Higher World

“Engaging and very readable . . . an essential read for those wanting to get under the skin of modern Scottish history” from the author of Glasgow ( Scottish Field ).   Michael Fry here applies his uniquely wide-ranging procedures of Scottish historical analysis to the eighteenth century, which gave this small nation its one era of truly global significance. He adds: “Never again was it to be so exemplary: unless, perhaps, in the twenty-first century.” In his journey from the Unio