swap_horiz J.H. Plumb 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

2

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

3

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

4

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

Geoffrey Parker

Geoffrey Parker is a British historian whose work centers on early modern Europe, military history, and the Spanish Empi...

Military 20TH Century Early Modern British American

8.7 Great

16

R.G. Collingwood

R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was an English philosopher, historian, and archaeologist whose work addressed the nature a...

Philosophical 20TH Century British Ancient

8.6 Great

17

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

18

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

19

G.M. Trevelyan

G. M. Trevelyan was an English historian whose books brought social and political history together in readable narrative...

Narrative Social 20TH Century British

8.0 Great

20

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