swap_horiz Niall Ferguson Alternatives

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Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel was a prominent 20th-century French historian known for his work on long-term historical processes. He d...

French Mediterranean 20TH Century Economic

9.2 Excellent

2

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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Henri Pirenne

Henri Pirenne was a Belgian historian whose work examined medieval economic, urban, and social history. His best-known a...

20TH Century Medieval Urban Belgian

9.1 Excellent

4

Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Kotkin is an American historian whose research concerns Russia, the Soviet Union, authoritarianism, and geopolit...

American Contemporary Biography Soviet

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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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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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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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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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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Romila Thapar

Romila Thapar is an Indian historian of ancient and early medieval South Asia. Her scholarship examines political author...

Contemporary Social Indian South Asian

8.9 Great

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James Scott

James C. Scott was an American political scientist and anthropologist whose work examined states, peasants, resistance,...

American Contemporary Resistance Southeast Asian

8.9 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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Paul Kennedy

Paul Kennedy is a British historian whose work examines international relations, military strategy, and the long-term co...

Contemporary Strategic Diplomatic British American

8.6 Great

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David Armitage

David Armitage is a British historian of intellectual, Atlantic, global, and international history. He has written about...

Contemporary Global Intellectual Atlantic

8.5 Great

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Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib is an Indian historian of medieval and early modern South Asia whose research centers on the economy, agrari...

Contemporary Indian South Asian Economic

8.4 Great

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David Eltis

David Eltis is a historian of the Atlantic world whose research uses quantitative evidence to study the transatlantic sl...

Contemporary Quantitative Atlantic British American

8.4 Great

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Simon Schama

Simon Schama is a British historian and writer whose work combines political, cultural, and art history. His book "Citiz...

Narrative Contemporary Cultural Dutch

8.3 Great

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Woody Holton

Woody Holton is an American historian of the American Revolution, the early United States, and the political roles of wo...

American Contemporary Political Revolutionary

8.3 Great

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Ralph Austen

Ralph A. Austen was an American historian of Africa and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. His research ex...

American Contemporary African Economic

8.1 Great