swap_horiz Thomas Babington Macaulay Alternatives

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Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French diplomat and historian renowned for his insightful analysis of American democracy in...

French American 19TH Century Political

9.2 Excellent

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Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke was a prominent German 19th-century historian renowned for his rigorous approach to historical researc...

German 19TH Century Archival Political

9.2 Excellent

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Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini was an Italian historian, diplomat, and political thinker of the Renaissance. His major work, Sto...

Italian Narrative Renaissance Political

8.6 Great

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Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet (1798-1874) was a French historian whose writings connected political history with the experiences of ord...

Romantic French Narrative 19TH Century

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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Henry Adams

Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an American historian, writer, and political thinker from a prominent Massachusetts family....

American 19TH Century Cultural Medieval

8.5 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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Geoffrey Elton

Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British historian of Tudor England and a major scholar of political and constit...

20TH Century British Political Tudor

8.3 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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William Doyle

William Doyle is a British historian whose research focuses on eighteenth-century France, the Ancien Régime, and the Fre...

Contemporary British Political Aristocracy

8.3 Great

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Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene (1083-c. 1153) was a Byzantine princess, writer, and historian, and the daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komne...

Narrative Medieval Byzantine Political

8.2 Great

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Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman was a nineteenth-century American historian and writer. He is known for The Oregon Trail, an account of...

Narrative American 19TH Century Colonial

8.1 Great

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Herbert Butterfield

Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and Christian thinker whose work examined how historians interpret the past....

20TH Century Historiography British Political

8.1 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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Richard Graham

Richard Graham is a Brazilian-American historian whose work focuses on nineteenth-century Brazil. He taught at the Unive...

American Contemporary 19TH Century Political

8.1 Great

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G.M. Trevelyan

G. M. Trevelyan was an English historian whose books brought social and political history together in readable narrative...

Narrative Social 20TH Century British

8.0 Great

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Ali Ansari

Ali Ansari is a British-Iranian historian who studies the political and intellectual history of modern Iran. He is a pro...

Modern Contemporary British Political

8.0 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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Roger Price

Roger Price is a British historian whose work focuses on nineteenth-century France, particularly the political and socia...

French Contemporary Social 19TH Century

7.9 Good

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George Bancroft

George Bancroft (1800-1891) was an American historian, Democratic politician, diplomat, and statesman. His principal his...

Narrative American 19TH Century Political

7.2 Good