swap_horiz Henri Pirenne Alternatives

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Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun was a 14th-century North African scholar and one of history’s earliest social scientists. His *Muqaddimah* o...

Medieval North African Islamic Sociological

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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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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Halil Inalcik

Halil İnalcık was a Turkish historian whose research shaped modern scholarship on the Ottoman Empire and its institution...

Social 20TH Century Turkish Ottoman

8.9 Great

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Georges Duby

Georges Duby was a French medieval historian associated with the Annales school of historical writing. His research exam...

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

8.7 Great

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Jan Vansina

Jan Vansina was a Belgian historian and anthropologist who developed methods for using oral traditions as evidence in hi...

20TH Century African Belgian Central African

8.7 Great

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Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein was an American sociologist and historian who developed world-systems analysis, an approach to unde...

American 20TH Century Sociology Economic

8.6 Great

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Ira Lapidus

Ira M. Lapidus was an American historian of the Islamic world and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley....

American Social 20TH Century Urban

8.6 Great

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Janet Abu-Lughod

Janet Abu-Lughod (1928-2003) was an American sociologist and urban historian whose research connected city development w...

American 20TH Century Urban Islamic

8.5 Great

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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

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Herbert Klein

Herbert S. Klein is an American historian whose work covers Latin American history, slavery, the Atlantic world, and his...

American 20TH Century Latin American Economic

8.2 Great

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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