swap_horiz Edward Gibbon Alternatives

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Tacitus

Tacitus was a prominent Roman historian living during the early Imperial period. He is notable for his critical and ofte...

Classical Political Ancient Roman

9.2 Excellent

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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

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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

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Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw is a prominent British historian specializing in Nazi Germany and twentieth-century warfare. His work focuse...

Contemporary British Biography Nazi Germany

9.2 Excellent

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Natalie Zemon Davis

Natalie Zemon Davis was a Canadian-American historian whose work focused on social and cultural life in early modern Eur...

American Social Cultural 20TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans is a prominent British historian specializing in twentieth-century Europe and Nazi Germany. His work si...

Contemporary Historiography British Nazi Germany

9.1 Excellent

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Bede

Bede, commonly called the Venerable Bede, was an English monk, scholar, and historian who lived at the monasteries of We...

Medieval Early Medieval British Religious

9.0 Excellent

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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

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, historian, and political writer of the Renaissance. His major works inclu...

Italian Renaissance Political Florence

8.9 Great

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Chris Wickham

Chris Wickham is a British medieval historian whose research examines Europe and the Mediterranean after the Roman Empir...

Contemporary Social Medieval Early Medieval

8.9 Great

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Livy

Livy, or Titus Livius, was a Roman historian who wrote Ab Urbe Condita Libri, a history of Rome from its legendary found...

Classical Narrative Ancient Roman

8.8 Great

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Keith Thomas

Sir Keith Thomas is a Welsh historian of early modern England whose work combines social, cultural, and intellectual his...

Social Cultural 20TH Century British

8.8 Great

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John H. Elliott

John H. Elliott was a British historian of early modern Europe, with particular attention to Spain, the Spanish monarchy...

20TH Century Comparative British Early Modern

8.8 Great

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Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze is a British economic historian who writes about modern Europe, Germany, and global financial crises. His 200...

Contemporary British Nazi Germany Economic

8.8 Great

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Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is an Indian historian of the early modern period whose research connects the histories of South Asi...

Contemporary South Asian Indian American Early Modern

8.8 Great

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E.H. Carr

E.H. Carr was a British historian, diplomat, journalist, and theorist of international relations. His 1961 book What Is...

20TH Century British Soviet Diplomatic

8.7 Great

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Roy Porter

Roy Porter (1946-2002) was a British historian whose work covered medicine, the Enlightenment, science, and social histo...

Medicine Social 20TH Century British

8.5 Great

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Hugh Trevor-Roper

Hugh Trevor-Roper was a British historian whose research covered early modern Europe, British history, and Nazi Germany....

20TH Century British Political Nazi Germany

7.9 Good

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William Robertson

William Robertson was an eighteenth-century Scottish historian and Church of Scotland minister who served as Principal o...

Narrative Colonial Scottish Early Modern

7.6 Good

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J.H. Plumb

J. H. Plumb was a British historian and professor at the University of Cambridge whose scholarship centered on eighteent...

20TH Century British Political English

7.6 Good