swap_horiz Quentin Skinner 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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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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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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Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn was an American historian of colonial and revolutionary America. His research examined the political idea...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Colonial

9.1 Excellent

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David Brion Davis

David Brion Davis was an American historian of slavery and abolition and a longtime Yale professor. His three-volume stu...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Transatlantic

9.1 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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Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter was an American historian of political and intellectual life who taught at Columbia University. His b...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Political

8.9 Great

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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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John Keegan

John Keegan (1934-2012) was a British military historian whose books examined how warfare was experienced and conducted...

Military Narrative 20TH Century British

8.6 Great

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Albert Hourani

Albert Hourani was a British-Lebanese historian of the modern Middle East and the Arab world. His scholarship examined p...

Intellectual 20TH Century Middle Eastern Arab

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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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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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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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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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