swap_horiz Merle Ricklefs Alternatives

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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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Christopher Browning

Christopher Browning is an American historian of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. His 1992 book Ordinary Men: Reserve Pol...

American Contemporary Holocaust Nazi Germany

9.1 Excellent

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Saul Friedländer

Saul Friedländer is an Israeli-American historian whose work focuses on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and historical memo...

Contemporary Memory Holocaust Nazi Germany

9.1 Excellent

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Sheila Fitzpatrick

Sheila Fitzpatrick is an Australian-American historian whose work focuses on the social history of the Soviet Union, esp...

Contemporary Social Australian Soviet

8.9 Great

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Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor is an American historian of early American and Atlantic history who has written about colonization, slavery,...

American Contemporary Colonial Borderlands

8.9 Great

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David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer is an American historian known for studying how migration, culture, institutions, and political id...

American Contemporary Cultural Colonial

8.7 Great

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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is an American historian whose work examines social history, gender, and everyday life in early A...

American Contemporary Social Colonial

8.6 Great

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Leslie Bethell

Leslie Bethell is a British historian whose scholarship focuses on Brazil and the history of Latin America. He is partic...

Modern Contemporary British Colonial

8.5 Great

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Anthony Reid

Anthony Reid is a New Zealand-born historian of Southeast Asia whose research covers the early modern period, maritime t...

Contemporary Australian Maritime Early Modern

8.4 Great

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Mary Beth Norton

Mary Beth Norton is an American historian of early American history whose work focuses on women, gender, politics, and c...

American Contemporary Colonial Gender

8.4 Great

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Colin Calloway

Colin Calloway is a British-American historian of Native American and early American history and a professor at Dartmout...

American Contemporary Indigenous Native American

8.4 Great

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Daniel Richter

Daniel K. Richter is an American historian of early North America and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His...

American Contemporary Native American Colonial

8.4 Great

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Ben Kiernan

Ben Kiernan is an Australian-born historian of Cambodia and genocide who has taught at Yale University. He founded the C...

Contemporary Australian Genocide Cambodian

8.3 Great

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Mahmood Mamdani

Mahmood Mamdani is a Ugandan-born scholar of African politics and history who is a professor of government and anthropol...

Contemporary Political Colonial African

8.3 Great

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Stuart Schwartz

Stuart Schwartz is an American historian of colonial Latin America, with particular attention to Brazil, the Atlantic wo...

American Contemporary Colonial Latin American

8.3 Great

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Serge Gruzinski

Serge Gruzinski is a French historian associated with the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the French Na...

French Contemporary Cultural Mexican

8.3 Great

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John Demos

John Demos is an American historian of early American and colonial history, known for using detailed individual cases to...

American Contemporary Social Colonial

8.3 Great

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Hue-Tam Ho Tai

Hue-Tam Ho Tai is a Vietnamese-American historian whose research concerns modern Vietnam, colonialism, nationalism, poli...

Contemporary Memory Colonial Vietnamese

8.2 Great

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Myron Echenberg

Myron Echenberg was a Canadian historian whose research focused on West African history, French colonialism, and the rel...

Contemporary Canadian Colonial African

8.1 Great

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Peter McPhee

Peter McPhee is an Australian historian and former provost of the University of Melbourne. He is known for research on t...

Contemporary Social Environmental Australian

8.1 Great