swap_horiz Albert Hourani Alternatives

1

Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga was a Dutch historian renowned for his anthropological approach to studying medieval culture. His seminal...

Cultural 20TH Century Medieval Dutch

9.2 Excellent

2

Marc Bloch

Marc Bloch was a prominent French historian of the 20th century. He is best known for his foundational work in Annales S...

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

9.2 Excellent

3

Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel was a prominent 20th-century French historian known for his work on long-term historical processes. He d...

French Mediterranean 20TH Century Economic

9.2 Excellent

4

Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg is a prominent Italian historian specializing in the early modern period. He pioneered microhistory, exam...

Italian Cultural 20TH Century Early Modern

9.2 Excellent

5

Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner is a prominent British historian specializing in early modern political thought. His work focuses on the...

Intellectual 20TH Century British Early Modern

9.2 Excellent

6

James McPherson

James McPherson is a prominent American historian specializing in the 20th and 21st centuries. He’s particularly renowne...

Military American 20TH Century Civil War

9.2 Excellent

7

Eric Foner

Eric Foner is a leading American historian specializing in the Reconstruction era and the history of slavery. His work s...

American 20TH Century Political Reconstruction

9.2 Excellent

8

Raul Hilberg

Raul Hilberg was a prominent American historian specializing in the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. His work, particularly *...

American 20TH Century Holocaust Administrative

9.2 Excellent

9

Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn was an American historian of colonial and revolutionary America. His research examined the political idea...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Colonial

9.1 Excellent

10

David Brion Davis

David Brion Davis was an American historian of slavery and abolition and a longtime Yale professor. His three-volume stu...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Transatlantic

9.1 Excellent

11

J.G.A. Pocock

J. G. A. Pocock was a New Zealand-born historian of political thought whose work examined the languages and historical c...

New Zealand Intellectual 20TH Century Early Modern

9.0 Excellent

12

Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter was an American historian of political and intellectual life who taught at Columbia University. His b...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Political

8.9 Great

13

Nikki Keddie

Nikki Keddie was an American historian associated with the University of California, Los Angeles, whose research centere...

American 20TH Century Iranian Middle Eastern

8.4 Great

14

Roger Owen

Roger Owen was a British historian of the modern Middle East and a professor at Harvard University, where he held the A....

20TH Century British Colonial Middle Eastern

8.3 Great

15

Joyce Appleby

Joyce Appleby (1929-2016) was an American historian of the early United States whose work explored republicanism, libera...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Capitalism

8.2 Great

16

Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis was a British-American historian whose scholarship concentrated on the history of the Middle East, Islam,...

20TH Century Islamic Ottoman Middle Eastern

7.9 Good

17

Philip Khuri Hitti

Philip Khuri Hitti (1886-1978) was a Lebanese-American historian and Arabist who taught and researched the history, lang...

20TH Century Medieval Islamic Arab

7.8 Good

18

Daniel Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin was an American historian, writer, and the twelfth Librarian of Congress. He wrote widely on American...

American Intellectual Cultural 20TH Century

7.6 Good

19

William Polk

William R. Polk was an American historian, author, and foreign-policy adviser whose work focused heavily on the modern M...

American 20TH Century Middle Eastern Diplomatic

7.6 Good

20

Stanford Shaw

Stanford Shaw was an American historian at UCLA, known for his comprehensive two-volume work History of the Ottoman Empi...

American 20TH Century Political Ottoman

6.9 Fair