swap_horiz Simon Schama Alternatives

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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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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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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch is an American historian and author whose work focuses on Martin Luther King Jr. and the United States civ...

Narrative American Contemporary Biography

8.7 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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Cemal Kafadar

Cemal Kafadar is a Turkish American historian whose work focuses on the Ottoman Empire, early modern Islamic societies,...

Contemporary Cultural Ottoman Early Modern

8.6 Great

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Pierre Nora

Pierre Nora is a French historian whose work examines national identity, historical consciousness, and collective memory...

French Contemporary Cultural Memory

8.6 Great

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Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor is a British historian known for narrative studies of twentieth-century conflict, especially the Second Wo...

Military Narrative Contemporary British

8.5 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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Leila Ahmed

Leila Ahmed is an Egyptian-American historian and scholar of Islam, gender, and the modern Middle East. She taught at Ha...

Contemporary Cultural Islamic Gender

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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Jay Winter

Jay Winter is an American historian whose work focuses on the social and cultural history of the First World War, includ...

American Contemporary Cultural Memory

8.4 Great

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Max Hastings

Max Hastings is a British journalist and historian known for narrative studies of modern warfare. His books include "The...

Military Narrative Contemporary British

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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Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore is an American historian at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her research and essay...

Narrative American Contemporary Cultural

8.3 Great

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Caroline Finkel

Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer specializing in Ottoman history. She holds a doctorate in Ottoman hist...

Narrative Contemporary British Ottoman

8.1 Great

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Kevin Starr

Kevin Starr (1940-2017) was an American historian, writer, and California State Librarian. He is best known for American...

Narrative American California Cultural

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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Sudhir Hazareesingh

Sudhir Hazareesingh is a Mauritian-born British historian whose work focuses on French political history, political cult...

French Contemporary Cultural Political

8.1 Great

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Keith Lowe

Keith Lowe is a British historian and author whose work focuses on the political and social consequences of the Second W...

Narrative Contemporary British World War Ii

7.9 Good

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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