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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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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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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

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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

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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

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Fritz Fischer

Fritz Fischer (1908-1999) was a German historian who specialized in modern German history and the origins of the First W...

German 20TH Century World War I War Guilt

8.6 Great

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Michael Howard

Sir Michael Howard was a British military historian whose work examined war, strategy, and the development of modern Eur...

Military 20TH Century British Strategic

8.6 Great

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Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor is a British historian known for narrative studies of twentieth-century conflict, especially the Second Wo...

Military Narrative Contemporary British

8.5 Great

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Roy Porter

Roy Porter (1946-2002) was a British historian whose work covered medicine, the Enlightenment, science, and social histo...

Medicine Social 20TH Century British

8.5 Great

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Hew Strachan

Hew Strachan is a Scottish military historian whose work focuses on war, strategy, and the First World War. His books in...

Military Contemporary British Strategic

8.5 Great

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A.J.P. Taylor

A.J.P. Taylor was a British historian who specialized in European diplomatic history, international relations, and the c...

20TH Century British Diplomatic Modern Europe

8.4 Great

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Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman was an American historian and author who wrote narrative histories of World War I, medieval Europe, and...

Military Narrative American 20TH Century

8.4 Great

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Peter Green

Peter Green was a British classical scholar, historian, and translator whose work focused on ancient Greece and the Hell...

Classical Ancient Greece 20TH Century British

8.4 Great

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Terence Ranger

Terence Ranger was a British Africanist historian whose scholarship focused on colonialism, African nationalism, religio...

20TH Century British Colonial African

8.4 Great

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Xenophon

Xenophon was an ancient Greek soldier, historian, and writer who was associated with Socrates. His Anabasis recounts the...

Military Classical Narrative Ancient

8.3 Great

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay was a British historian, essayist, poet, and Whig politician. His "History of England from the...

Narrative 19TH Century British Political

8.3 Great

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Max Hastings

Max Hastings is a British journalist and historian known for narrative studies of modern warfare. His books include "The...

Military Narrative Contemporary British

8.3 Great

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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