swap_horiz Paul Kennedy Alternatives

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Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun was a 14th-century North African scholar and one of history’s earliest social scientists. His *Muqaddimah* o...

Medieval North African Islamic Sociological

9.2 Excellent

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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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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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John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis is an American historian whose scholarship focuses on the Cold War, international relations, and strat...

Cold War American Contemporary Strategic

8.8 Great

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Odd Arne Westad

Odd Arne Westad is a Norwegian historian whose research focuses on the Cold War, international history, and the politica...

Cold War Contemporary Global Diplomatic

8.8 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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J.R. McNeill

J.R. McNeill is an American environmental historian whose work studies the interaction between ecological change and hum...

American Contemporary Environmental Atlantic

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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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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David Reynolds

David Reynolds is a British historian of modern international history whose research covers the world wars, diplomatic r...

Contemporary British World War Ii Transatlantic

8.4 Great

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Margaret MacMillan

Margaret MacMillan is a Canadian historian whose work addresses international relations, diplomacy, empire, and modern w...

Contemporary Peace Diplomatic World War I

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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Patrick Manning

Patrick Manning is an American historian whose research connects African history with the history of migration, slavery,...

American Contemporary African Slave Trade

8.3 Great

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a British historian and author whose work spans global history, exploration, environmental h...

Food Exploration Contemporary World History

8.1 Great

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Ross Dunn

Ross E. Dunn is an American historian known for his work in world history education and the history of the medieval Isla...

American Contemporary Islamic World History

8.0 Great

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Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is a Scottish-born historian and author whose work focuses on economic history, imperial history, finance...

Contemporary Empire Economic British American

7.7 Good