Arthur Herman, Author . Crown $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-609-60635-3
Focusing on the 18th and 19th centuries, Herman (coordinator of the Western Heritage Program at the Smithsonian and an assistant professor of history at George Mason University) has written a successful exploration of Scotland's...
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Arthur Herman, Author . HarperCollins $26.95 (672p) ISBN 978-0-06-053424-0
The author of How the Scots Invented the Modern World
returns with this quite splendid history of the British Royal Navy. Probably to no one's surprise, his thesis is that the British Empire was the foundation of the modern world and the Royal...
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Arthur Herman, Author . Bantam $30 (736p) ISBN 978-0-553-80463-8
Historian Herman (How the Scots Invented the Modern World
) paints a forceful portrait of the emergence of the postcolonial era in the fateful contrast—and surprising affinities—between two historic figures on opposite sides of the...
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Arthur Herman, Author Free Press $30 (528p) ISBN 978-0-684-82791-9
Herman neatly sidesteps the question of whether the West is actually in decline. His disclaimer at the outset is that he only intends to trace the idea of decline as expressed by intellectual pessimists of various persuasions. Some doomsayers view...
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Arthur Herman, Author Free Press $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-684-83625-6
Given recent revelations from Soviet-era archives and new thinking about the Cold War, this biography was probably inevitable. Readers can therefore be thankful that Herman, a historian at George Mason University, has given us an occasionally...
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Arthur Herman. Random, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6964-4
Herman (How the Scots Invented the Modern World) tells the epic story of the American businessmen who, in only a few years, helped America become the largest military power in history. These include William Knudsen, a Danish immigrant who turned...
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Arthur Herman. Random, $35 (656p) ISBN 978-0-553-80730-1
In his sweeping new book, historian Herman (How the Scots Invented the Modern World) contends that Plato and Aristotle had vastly different conceptions about the world, and that the various followers and interpreters of each thinker, throughout the...
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Arthur Herman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30 (512p) ISBN 978-1-328-59590-4
This ambitious yet unconvincing history tracks the influence of Nordic culture on the world from the Bronze Age to the rise of Silicon Valley. The “Viking heart,” according to historian Herman (How the Scots Invented the World), is “a frame of mind,
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