swap_horiz Keith Thomas 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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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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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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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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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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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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Ira Berlin

Ira Berlin was an American historian of slavery and African American history who taught at the University of Maryland. H...

African American American Social 20TH Century

8.9 Great

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Chris Wickham

Chris Wickham is a British medieval historian whose research examines Europe and the Mediterranean after the Roman Empir...

Contemporary Social Medieval Early 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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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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John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin was an American historian whose scholarship centered on African American history, the Civil War era,...

African American American Social 20TH Century

8.8 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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Lawrence Stone

Lawrence Stone was a British historian associated with the study of early modern England and the development of social h...

Social Family 20TH Century Early Modern

8.1 Great

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Theodore Zeldin

Theodore Zeldin is a British historian whose writing examines French history through social relationships, emotions, wor...

French Contemporary Social Cultural

8.1 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

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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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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