swap_horiz Hugh Trevor-Roper Alternatives

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon was a prominent British historian best known for *The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire*...

British Roman Early Modern Enlightenment

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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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

5

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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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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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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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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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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Tony Judt

Tony Judt was a British-American historian whose research and writing addressed modern European political and intellectu...

European 20TH Century Political British American

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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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

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Gordon Wood

Gordon S. Wood is an American historian of the Revolutionary era and the early United States. His scholarship explores r...

American 20TH Century Political Revolutionary

8.9 Great

15

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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Geoffrey Elton

Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British historian of Tudor England and a major scholar of political and constit...

20TH Century British Political Tudor

8.3 Great

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Herbert Butterfield

Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and Christian thinker whose work examined how historians interpret the past....

20TH Century Historiography British Political

8.1 Great

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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