swap_horiz George Mosse Alternatives

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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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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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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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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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Lucien Febvre

Lucien Febvre was a French historian who helped establish the Annales approach to history. In 1929 he co-founded the jou...

French Social Cultural 20TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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Benedict Anderson

Benedict Anderson was an Irish-born political scientist and historian who taught at Cornell University and specialized i...

20TH Century Theoretical Southeast Asian Irish American

9.0 Excellent

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Jacques Le Goff

Jacques Le Goff was a French medieval historian associated with the Annales School and with the École des hautes études...

French Cultural 20TH Century Medieval

8.9 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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Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton is an American cultural historian known for research on eighteenth-century France, the Enlightenment, and...

American Cultural 20TH Century French Revolution

8.8 Great

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Nell Irvin Painter

Nell Irvin Painter is an American historian whose scholarship examines race, slavery, politics, gender, and society in t...

African American American Cultural 20TH Century

8.5 Great

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David Lowenthal

David Lowenthal was an American-born geographer and historian whose research examined heritage, collective memory, lands...

American Heritage Cultural 20TH Century

8.5 Great

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Lynn Hunt

Lynn Hunt is an American historian whose scholarship examines the French Revolution, political culture, gender, and the...

American Cultural 20TH Century French Revolution

8.4 Great

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Peter Gay

Peter Gay (1923-2015) was a German-born American historian known for studies of the Enlightenment, European bourgeois cu...

American Cultural 20TH Century Enlightenment

8.2 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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Kevin Starr

Kevin Starr (1940-2017) was an American historian, writer, and California State Librarian. He is best known for American...

Narrative American California Cultural

8.1 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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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