swap_horiz Johan Huizinga 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

9.20 Excellent

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Marc Bloch

Marc Bloch was a prominent French historian of the 20th century. He is best known for his foundational work in Annales S...

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

9.20 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

9.20 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

9.05 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

9.05 Excellent

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Lucien Febvre

Lucien Febvre was a French historian who helped establish the Annales approach to history. In 1929 he co-founded the jou...

French Social Cultural 20TH Century

8.95 Great

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Jacques Le Goff

Jacques Le Goff was a French medieval historian associated with the Annales School and with the École des hautes études...

French Cultural 20TH Century Medieval

8.85 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

8.75 Great

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Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton is an American cultural historian known for research on eighteenth-century France, the Enlightenment, and...

American Cultural 20TH Century French Revolution

8.75 Great

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Georges Duby

Georges Duby was a French medieval historian associated with the Annales school of historical writing. His research exam...

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

8.70 Great

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David Lowenthal

David Lowenthal was an American-born geographer and historian whose research examined heritage, collective memory, lands...

American Heritage Cultural 20TH Century

8.50 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

8.45 Great

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Nell Irvin Painter

Nell Irvin Painter is an American historian whose scholarship examines race, slavery, politics, gender, and society in t...

African American American Cultural 20TH Century

8.45 Great

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Lynn Hunt

Lynn Hunt is an American historian whose scholarship examines the French Revolution, political culture, gender, and the...

American Cultural 20TH Century French Revolution

8.40 Great

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George Mosse

George Mosse was a German-born American historian who taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and studied modern E...

Cultural 20TH Century Nazi Germany German American

8.35 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

8.25 Great

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Peter Gay

Peter Gay (1923-2015) was a German-born American historian known for studies of the Enlightenment, European bourgeois cu...

American Cultural 20TH Century Enlightenment

8.20 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

8.10 Great

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Philip Khuri Hitti

Philip Khuri Hitti (1886-1978) was a Lebanese-American historian and Arabist who taught and researched the history, lang...

20TH Century Medieval Islamic Arab

7.80 Good

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Daniel Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin was an American historian, writer, and the twelfth Librarian of Congress. He wrote widely on American...

American Intellectual Cultural 20TH Century

7.55 Good