swap_horiz Fritz Fischer Alternatives

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Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke was a prominent German 19th-century historian renowned for his rigorous approach to historical researc...

German 19TH Century Archival Political

9.2 Excellent

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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Robert Caro

Robert Caro is a prominent American historian specializing in twentieth-century political biographies. His meticulous re...

American 20TH Century Power Political

9.2 Excellent

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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

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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

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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

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John Keegan

John Keegan (1934-2012) was a British military historian whose books examined how warfare was experienced and conducted...

Military Narrative 20TH Century British

8.6 Great

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Christopher Clark

Christopher Clark is an Australian historian who has held academic posts in Britain, including the position of Regius Pr...

German Contemporary Political World War I

8.6 Great

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Hans-Ulrich Wehler

Hans-Ulrich Wehler was a German historian whose work helped establish the Bielefeld School of social history. He emphasi...

German Social 20TH Century Structural

8.5 Great

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Detlev Peukert

Detlev Peukert (1950-1990) was a German historian of modern Germany whose work connected political history with the hist...

German Social 20TH Century Nazi Germany

8.2 Great

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Wolfgang Mommsen

Wolfgang J. Mommsen (1930-2004) was a German historian of modern Europe and a professor at the University of Düsseldorf....

German 20TH Century Political Imperialism

8.2 Great

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Holger Herwig

Holger Herwig is a German-born Canadian military historian whose research focuses on the First World War and German mili...

Military German Contemporary World War I

8.2 Great

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Hagen Schulze

Hagen Schulze (1943-2019) was a German historian and professor at the Free University of Berlin. His scholarship examine...

German 20TH Century Political National

8.0 Great

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Oswald Spengler

Oswald Spengler was a German historian and philosopher best known for The Decline of the West, published in two volumes...

German Philosophical 20TH Century World History

7.6 Good