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A '''historian''' is one who records or catalogs either past occurrences or contemporary happenings in an organized form for the sake of preserving that knowledge for the present and [[future]] generations. For a list of some famous historians, click on the category below.
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This is a guide to the world's major '''historians''' categorized by their area of study. See also [[History]] for overview of historiography
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==[[Historiography]]==
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*[[Marc Bloch]], a leader of the [[Annales School]]
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*[[Fernand Braudel]], a leader of the [[Annales School]]
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*[[Herbert Butterfield]], ''Whig Interpretation of History''  <ref>  C.T. McIntire, ''Herbert Butterfield'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Herbert-Butterfield-C-T-McIntire/dp/0300098073/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209949427&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]</ref>
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*[[R. G. Collingwood]]<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Idea-History-Lectures-1926-1928/dp/0192853066/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240778129&sr=8-1 ''The Idea of History: With Lectures 1926-1928'']</ref>
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*[[Geoffrey Elton]]<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Practice-History-Geoffrey-R-Elton/dp/0631229795/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240778181&sr=8-5 ''The Practice of History'']</ref>
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*[[Richard J. Evans]]<ref> See []</ref>
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*[[Pieter Geyl]]<ref> Pieter Geyl, ''The Revolt of the Netherlands: 1555-1609'' (1958) [http://www.questia.com/read/98720656?title=The%20Revolt%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20(1555-1609) online edition]</ref>
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*[[J. H. Hexter]]<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Reappraisals-History-Society-Modern-Europe/dp/0226332330/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198207797&sr=1-2]</ref>
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*[[Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie]], a leader of the [[Annales School]]
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*[[Leopold von Ranke]], German; the leading historians of the 19th century; strong influence on German and American scholarship based on research in primary sources and telling it "as it happened"
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*[[Hayden White]] (1928- )<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Metahistory-Historical-Imagination-Nineteenth-Century-Europe/dp/0801817617/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198207684&sr=1-2] and [http://www.amazon.com/Content-Form-Narrative-Historical-Representation/dp/0801841151/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198207684&sr=1-1]</ref>
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* [[Wilhelm Dilthey]]
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{{quotebox|professional historians face a skeptical public inclined to discard their assertions if these challenge widely held beliefs without convincing evidence. Such is the price of living in a pluralist democracy. [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hamby.htm] }}
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==World history==
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see [[World history]]
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*[[Francis F ukuyama]] (1952- ) ''The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992)
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*[[William H. McNeill]] (born 1917) ''The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community'' (1965)
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*[[Pitirim Sorokin]] (1889-1968), Russian-American macrosociology; ''Social and Cultural Dynamics'' (4 vol., 1937–41)<ref> B. V. Johnston, ''Pitirim A. Sorokin an Intelellectual Biography'' (1995)</ref>
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*[[Oswald Spengler]], German;  ''Decline of the West'' (1918-22)
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*[[Arnold J. Toynbee]], British; ''A Study of History'' (1934-61)<ref>  William H. McNeill, ''Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life'' (1990) </ref>
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*[[Eric Voegelin]] (1901 – 1985) ''Order and History'' (1956-85)<ref>  Jeffrey C. Herndon, ''Eric Voegelin and the Problem of Christian Political Order'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Voegelin-Christian-Political-Institute-Philosophy/dp/0826217370/ref=pd_bbs_sr_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209948913&sr=8-11 excerpt and text search] </ref>
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*[[Immanuel Wallerstein]], world systems
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==[[Ancient history]]==
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* see also [[Ancient Rome > Bibliography]]
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*[[Thucydides]]
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*[[Xenophon]]
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*[[Herodotus]]
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*[[Josephus]]
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*[[Livy]]
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*[[Julius Caesar]]
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*[[Suetonius]]
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*[[Tacitus]]
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*[[Edward Gibbon]] (1737-1794) - Roman Empire
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*[[Michael Grant]] Greece and Rome<ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/World-Rome-Michael-Grant/dp/0452008492/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198149612&sr=1-12 excerpt and text search]</ref>
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*[[Peter Green]] (1924-  )- Ancient Greece<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Greece-Illustrated-National-Histories/dp/0500271615/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198206137&sr=1-2]</ref>
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*[[Barbara Levick]] (1932- ) Roman emperors <ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Claudius-Barbara-Levick/dp/0300058314/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198206232&sr=1-6]</ref>
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*[[Barthold Georg Niebuhr]] (1776–1831) - Rome
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*[[M. I. Rostovtzeff]] (1870-1952) <ref> See [http://members.tripod.com/~Kekrops/Hellenistic_Files/Rostovtzeff.html]</ref>
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*[[Howard H. Scullard]] (1903-1983) - Rome <ref> see [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=88132230 online edition]</ref>
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*[[Ronald Syme]] (1903 - 1989) Rome<ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/Roman-Revolution-Ronald-Syme/dp/0192803204/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198206384&sr=1-1]</ref>
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==[[Medieval history]]==
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*[[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]
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*[[Geraldis Cambrensis]]
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*[[Placido Puccinelli]] (1609-1685, - Italy
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*[[Marc Bloch]] (1886-1944, French) France, methodology; [[Annales School]]
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*[[John Boswell]] (1947-1994) - Homosexuality
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*[[Norman Cantor]] (1930-2004), England, historiography
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*[[Georges Duby]] (1924-1996), France; [[Annales School]]
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*[[François-Louis Ganshof]] (1895-1980), Dutch
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*[[Patrick Geary]]
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*[[Johan Huizinga]] Dutch
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*[[George Sarton]], science
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*[[Jacques Le Goff]], French, [[Annales School]]
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* Rev. [[F. X. Martin]] (Irish) - Mediævalist and campaigner
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*[[Rosamond McKitterick]] - Frankish and Carolingian history
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*[[Henri Pirenne]] (1862-1935) - the "Pirenne Thesis" downplays barbarian invasions and emphasizes role of Islam<ref> Kenneth W. Frank, "Pirenne Again: A Muslim Viewpoint," ''The History Teacher,'' Vol. 26, No. 3 (May, 1993), pp. 371-383 [http://www.jstor.org/pss/494667 in JSTOR]
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*[[Eileen Power]]
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*[[Miri Rubin]] -  religion
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*[[Stephen Runciman]] (1903&ndash;2000) - the Crusades
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*[[Richard Southern]] (1912-2001), religion
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*[[Sidney Painter]]
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*[[John Julius Norwich]]
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==Modern history==
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===[[Canada, history]]===
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*[[Francis Parkman]] - French colonial; French and Indian War
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*[[Donald Creighton]] - Developed the [[Laurentian thesis]]
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*[[Lionel Groulx]] (1878-1967) - history of [[Quebec]]
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*[[Harold Innis]] - Economic history
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*[[Jack Granatstein]] - Political and military
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*[[W.L. Morton]] - Manitoba
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===[[Caribbean]]===
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*[[Eric Williams]] (1911-1981) - slavery
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===[[U.S., History ]]===
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*[[Stephen Ambrose]] (1936-2002) - Biographer of Eisenhower, Nixon; military history
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*[[Thomas A. Bailey]], diplomatic
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*[[Bernard Bailyn]], Revolution, colonial
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*[[George Bancroft]] (1800-1891) - colonial and Revolution
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*[[Charles A. Beard]] (1874-1948) - economic interpretation <ref> Beard had two highly influential books, ''Economic Interpretation of the Constitution'' (1913), and "Rise of American Civilization'' (1927, with Mary Beard); see Kent Blaser, "The Rise of American Civilization and the Contemporary Crisis in American Historiography," ''The History Teacher,'' Vol. 26, No. 1 (Nov., 1992), pp. 71-90 [http://www.jstor.org/pss/494087 in JSTOR]</ref>
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*[[Alan Brinkley]] - 1930s, conservatism
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*[[William Cronon]] - environmental history
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*[[John Hope Franklin]] - African Americans
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*[[Milton Friedman]], monetary history
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*[[John A. Garraty]], biography, politics
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* [[Richard Hildreth]], politics to 1840
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*[[Richard Hofstadter]] (1916-1970) - Progressivism, politics, historiography
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* [[Russell Kirk]], conservative ideas
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* [[Arthur S. Link]], Woodrow Wilson
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* [[Seymour Martin Lipset]], political sociology of movements
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*[[David McCullough]] (1933- ) -  popular biographies of Harry Truman, Teddy Roosevelt, John Adams
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*[[Forrest McDonald]], political history, presidents
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*[[Edmund Morgan]], colonial and Revolution
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*[[David Nasaw]] - biography
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*[[Frank Lawrence Owsley]], antebellum South
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*[[Francis Parkman]] - French and Indian War; Canada
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*[[Vernon L. Parringon]], history of ideas and literature
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*[[Ulrich B. Phillips]], slavery
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*[[David M. Potter]], coming of Civil War
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*[[Theodore Roosevelt]], West, War of 1812
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*[[Arthur Schlesinger Sr.]], social history
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*[[Arthur Schlesinger Jr.]], political history, biography
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*[[Frederick Jackson Turner]] (1861-1932) - [[Frontier Thesis]] and sectionalism thesis
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*[[Frank Vandiver]], military
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*[[C. Vann Woodward]] (1908-1999) - South after 1877
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*[[Howard Zinn]] (1922- ) - Left
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====Civil War and Reconstruction====
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*[[Bruce Catton]] - combat
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*[[David Herbert Donald]], politics
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*[[Shelby Foote]] - (1916-2005) battles
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====[[Neoabolitionist]]====
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*[[George Washington Williams]]
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*[[W.E.B. Du Bois]]
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*[[Herbert Aptheker]]
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*[[Philip Foner]]
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*[[Dwight Dumond]]
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*[[David W, Blight]]
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*[[Martin Duberman]]
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*[[Paul Finkelman]]
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*[[Eric Foner]]
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*[[John Hope Franklin]]
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*[[Lawrence Levine]]
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*[[Leon Litwack]]
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*[[William S. McFeely]]
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*[[James M. McPherson]]
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*[[Gary Nash]]
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*[[Leonard Richards]]
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*[[Kenneth Stampp]]
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*[[Howard Zinn]]
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=====[[Dunning School]]=====
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*[[E. Merton Coulter]]
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*[[William Archibald Dunning]]
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*[[Walter Lynwood Fleming]]
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*[[Charles W. Ramsdell]]
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==Latin America==
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===[[Brazil]]===
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*[[Sergio Buarque de Holanda]]
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*[[Gilberto Freyre]]
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*[[Caio Prado]]
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*[[Fernando Novais]] - the crisis of colonial system
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==Europe==
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*[[Norman Davies]]
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*[[Elizabeth Eisenstein]], printing
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*[[John Lukacs]], Cold War
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*[[Henri-Jean Martin]], early printing and writing
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*[[Robert Roswell Palmer]], French Revolution
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*[[J. Salwyn Schapiro]]
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*[[Norman Stone]], World War I
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*[[Gordon Wright]], World War II
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===[[Belgium, history]]===
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* [[Henri Pirenne]] (1862-1935)<ref> F. M. Powicke, "Henri Pirenne," ''The English Historical Review,'' Vol. 51, No. 201 (Jan., 1936), pp. 79-89  [http://www.jstor.org/pss/552764 in JSTOR]</ref>
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===[[Britain]]===
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* Venerable [[Bede]] (672 &ndash; 735)
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*[[Geoffrey of Monmouth]] (died circa 1154)
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*[[Angus Calder]] - World War II.
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*[[Maurice Cowling]] - political history.
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*[[Eamon Duffy]] - 15th-17th century religious history
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*[[Geoffrey Rudolph Elton]] - Tudor period
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*[[Antonia Fraser]] - 17th century
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*[[James Anthony Froude]], (1818-1894)<ref>James Anthony. Froude, ''History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada'' (1856) 10 vol [http://books.google.com/books?id=zEs2AAAAMAAJ&dq=inauthor:froude&lr=&num=30&as_brr=1&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 complete text online] </ref>
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*[[J. H. Hexter]] - Revolution; methodology
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*[[Gertrude Himmelfarb]] - Victorian social and cultural history.
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*[[Christopher Hill]] (1912-2003) - Revolution
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*[[David Hume]] (1711-1776)<ref>David Hume, '' The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Abdication of James II, 1688'' (6 vols, 1754-1762). [http://books.google.com/books?id=vE4NAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:history+inauthor:david+inauthor:hume&lr=&num=30&as_brr=1 online edition]  </ref>
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* [[John Lingard]]<ref> John Lingard, ''The History of England,'' (1850), [http://books.google.com/books?id=jp4gAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:john+inauthor:lingard&lr=&num=30&as_brr=1  online edition]</ref>
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*[[John Edward Lloyd]] (1861-1947) - Early Welsh history
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*[[Lewis Namier]] (1888-1960)- 18c politics, 20c diplomacy, prospography<ref> See Linda Colley, ''Lewis Namier'' (1989). </ref>
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*[[Samuel Rawson Gardiner]] (1929-1902) -- Civil War<ref> See J. S. A. Adamson, "Eminent Victorians: S. R. Gardiner and the Liberal as Hero." ''Historical Journal'' 1990 33(3): 641-657. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2639735  in Jstor] </ref>
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*[[Andrew Roberts]] (1963- ), political and military
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*[[A. L. Rowse]] (1903-1997) Elizabethan
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*[[John Robert Seeley]] (1834-1895)
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*[[David Starkey]] (born 1945) - Tudor
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*[[E. P. Thompson]], (1924-1993), working class
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*[[Lawrence Stone]], family, Revolution
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*[[George Macaulay Trevelyan]] (1876&ndash;1962), 17th-18th centuries;
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*[[Hugh Trevor-Roper]],  17th century
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*[[C. V. Wedgwood]] (1910-1997), Glorious Revolution
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====[[Ireland, history]]====
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*[[R. F. Foster]]<ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Ireland-1600-1972-Penguin-history/dp/0140132503/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198042412&sr=1-7]</ref>
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===Czech historians===
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*Bohuslav Balbín (1621-88)
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*Gelasius Dibner (1719-1790)
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*Josef Dobrofský (1753-1829)
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*František Palacký (1798-1876) - 5 vol history to 1526
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*Jaroslav Goll (1846-1929) - leader of scientific school
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*Václav Novotný )1869-1932) -Hussites
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*Josef Pekař (1870-1937), social and economic
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===[[France, history]]===
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*[[Voltaire]] (1694-1778)
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*[[Augustin Thierry]] (1795-1856) - Revolution
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*[[François Guizot]] (1787-1874) - Revolution
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*[[Jules Michelet]] (1798-1874)  - Revolution
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*[[Alexis de Tocqueville]] (1805-1859) -ancien regime
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*[[Gabriel Monod]] (1844 - 1912) - editor ''Revue Historique'' (1875- )
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*[[Henri Berr]] (1863-1954) -editor of ''Revue de synthèse historique'' (1900- )
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*[[Charles-Victor Langlois]] (1863-1929) - methods
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*[[Charles Seignobos]] (1854-1842) - methods
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*[[Alphone Aulard]] (1849-1928) - Revolution
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*[[Albert Mathiez]] (1874-1932) - Revolution
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*[[Georges Lefebvre]] (1874-1959) - Revolution
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*[[Albert Soboul]] (1914-1982) - Revolution
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*[[François Furet]] (1927- ) - Revolution
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====[[Annales School]]====
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*[[Marc Bloch]] (1886-1944) - Medieval
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*[[Lucien Febvre]] (1878-1956) - geography
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*[[Robert Mandrou]] (1921-1984) - psychology
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*[[Georges Duby]] (1924-1996) - Medieval
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*[[Ernest Labrousse]] (1895-1986) - quantitative
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*[[Fernand Braudel]] (1902-1985) - Mediterranean
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*[[Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie]]  peasants
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*[[Jacques Le Goff]] medieval
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*[[Pierre Goubert]] (1915- ) - 18th century
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*[[Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie]] (1929- ) - peasantry
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*[[Roland Mousnier]] - early modern
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*[[Michel Vovelle]] (1933- ) -religion
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*[[Jacques Revel]]
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====outside France====
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*[[Keith M. Baker]] - Revolution
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*[[David Chandler]] - Napoleon
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*[[Alfred Cobban]] - Revolution
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*[[Natalie Zemon Davis]] - early modern
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*[[William Doyle]] - Revolution
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*[[Alistair Horne]] - modern military
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*[[Robert R. Palmer]] - Revolution
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*[[Robert O. Paxton]] - Vichy
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*[[Eugen Weber]] - modern
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*[[John B. Wolf]] (1907-96) Louis XIV
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*[[Gordon Wright]] (1912-2000) - 20th century
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===[[Germany, history]]===
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*[[Heinrich von Treitschke]]
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====20th century scholars in Germany====
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*[[Martin Broszat]], Nazi era
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*[[Werner Conze]]
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*[[Fritz Fischer]] - World War I
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*[[Klaus Hildebrand]]
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*[[Andreas Hillgruber]]
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*[[Eberhard Jäckel]] -Nazi era
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*[[Jürgen Kocka]] - Bielefeld school; scoial history
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*[[Hartmut Kaelble]]
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*[[Friedrich Meinecke]]
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*[[Hans Mommsen]]
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*[[Wolfgang Mommsen]]
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*[[Ernst Nolte]]
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*[[Detlev Peukert]]
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*[[Gerhard Ritter]]
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*[[Oswald Spengler]] - world history
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*[[Michael Sturmer]] -20c; geography
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*[[Klemens von Klemperer]] - Nazi era
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*[[Hans-Ulrich Wehler]]  Bielefeld School; new social history; 19c
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*[[Michael Wolffsohn]]
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*[[Rainer Zitelmann]] - Nazi era
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====outside Germany====
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*[[Thomas Carlyle]] Frederick the Great<ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/History-Friedrich-Prussia-called-Frederick/dp/1421272717/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198042492&sr=1-12]</ref>
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*[[Alan Bullock]] - Hitler<ref>see [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Study-Tyranny-Alan-Bullock/dp/B000H2N5W6/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198042584&sr=1-1]</ref>
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*[[Gordon A. Craig]] - Army<ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/Germany-1866-1945-Oxford-History-Modern/dp/0195027248/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198042651&sr=1-1]</ref>
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*[[Richard J. Evans]] - Nazi era<ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/Third-Reich-Power-Richard-Evans/dp/0143037900/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198042672&sr=1-1]</ref>
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*[[Ian Kershaw]], Hitler<ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-1936-1945-Nemesis-Ian-Kershaw/dp/0393322521/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198042694&sr=1-2]</ref>
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*[[Claudia Koonz]] - Women in Nazi era<ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Fatherland-Women-Family-Politics/dp/0312022565/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198042725&sr=1-1]</ref>
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*[[Timothy Mason]]  -Nazis<ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/Nazism-Fascism-Working-Class-Timothy/dp/0521437873/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198042752&sr=1-7]</ref>
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*[[George Mosse]] --19c-20c culture <ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/Confronting-History-George-L-Mosse/dp/0299165809/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198042802&sr=1-4]</ref>
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*[[Steven Ozment]] Reformation <ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Fortress-History-German-People/dp/0060934832/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198042837&sr=1-3]</ref>
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*[[Hans Rothfels]] - military
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*[[Fritz Stern]] - cultural<ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/Five-Germanys-I-Have-Known/dp/0374530866/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198042877&sr=1-1]</ref>
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*[[Henry Ashby Turner]] - 20c esp business<ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/Germany-Partition-Reunification-Revised-Germanies/dp/0300053479/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198042934&sr=1-16]</ref>
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====[[Holocaust]]====
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*[[Yehuda Bauer]]
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*[[Martin Broszat]]
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*[[Christopher Browning]]
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*[[Lucy Dawidowicz]]
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*[[Norman Finkelstein]]
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*[[Henry Friedlander]]
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*[[Saul Friedländer]]
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*[[Daniel Goldhagen]]
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*[[Raul Hilberg]]
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*[[Michael Marrus]]
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*[[Hans Mommsen]]
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*[[R. J. Rummel]]
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====[[Italy, history]]====
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*[[Renzo De Felice]] <ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Jews-Fascist-Italy-History/dp/1929631014/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202252516&sr=8-6] </ref>
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====[[Netherlands, history]]====
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* [[Petrus Johannes Blok]], survey<ref>  Petrus Johannes Blok. ''History of the People of the Netherlands''  (5 vol 1898-1912) [http://books.google.com/books?id=s8kOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=intitle:Netherlands+inauthor:blok&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 part 1 to 1500, online from Google]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=0coOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=intitle:Netherlands+inauthor:blok&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 part 2 to 1559. online from Google]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=NH8SAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=editions:0sw5yfkxR-fObZWwVX&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 part 3: The War with Spain 1559-162, online from Google]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=PckOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:0sw5yfkxR-fObZWwVX#PPP12,M1 part 4 on Golden Age online from Google];  [http://books.google.com/books?id=gf8bAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=intitle:Netherlands+inauthor:blok&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0&source=gbs_toc_s&cad=1 online edition from Google, vol 5 on 18th and 19th century]</ref>
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* [[J. C. H. Blom]], survey<ref> J. C. H. Blom, and E. Lamberts, eds.  ''History of the Low Countries'' (2006) 504pp [http://www.amazon.com/History-Low-Countries-J-Blom/dp/1845452720/ref=pd_bbs_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209443552&sr=8-8 excerpt and text search]; also [http://www.questia.com/read/1379132?title=History%20of%20the%20Low%20Countries complete edition online]</ref>
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* [[Pieter Geyl]], Dutch revolt; historiography<ref>Pieter Geyl, ''The Revolt of the Netherlands: 1555-1609'' (1958) [http://www.questia.com/read/98720656?title=The%20Revolt%20of%20the%20Netherlands%20(1555-1609) online edition]</ref>
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* [[Johan Huizinga]] (1872-1945), cultural history<ref>Peter Burke, "Historians and Their Times: Huizinga, Prophet of 'Blood and Roses.'" ''History Today'' 1986 36(Nov): 23-28. Issn: 0018-2753 Fulltext: [[EBSCO]]; William U. Bouwsma, "The ''Waning of the Middle Ages'' by Johan Huizinga." ''Daedalus'' 1974 103(1): 35-43. Issn: 0011-5266; R. L. Colie, "Johan Huizinga and the Task of Cultural History." ''American Historical Review'' 1964 69(3): 607-630 [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1845780 in JSTOR]; Robert Anchor, "History and Play: Johan Huizinga and His Critics," ''History and Theory, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Feb., 1978), pp. 63-93 [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2504901 in JSTOR]  </ref>
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* [[Jonathan Israel]], Dutch Republic<ref>Jonathan Israel, ''The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806'' (1995) [http://www.questia.com/read/91981119?title=The%20Dutch%20Republic%3a%20Its%20Rise%2c%20Greatness%2c%20and%20Fall%2c%201477-1806 complete online edition]; also [http://www.amazon.com/Dutch-Republic-Greatness-1477-1806-History/dp/0198207344/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209443552&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]</ref>
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* [[Louis De Jong]], World War II<ref>J. C. H. Blom, "Ludovico Locuto, Porta Aperta: Enige Notities over Deel XII En XIII Van L. De Jongs Koninkrijk Der Nederlanden in De Tweede Wereldoorlog." [After Louis Spoke, Everything Was Clear: Some Notes on Volumes 12 and 13 of Louis De Jong's Kingdom of the Netherlands in World War Ii]. ''Bijdragen En Mededelingen Betreffende De Geschiedenis Der Nederlanden'' 1990 105(2): 244-264. Issn: 0165-0505 review of a great masterpiece.</ref>
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* [[John Lothrop Motley]], American historian of the Dutch Revolt<ref>John Lothrop Motley, ''The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-84'' (2 vol. 1856)
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[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4836/4836.txt Gutenberg editions online] and ''History of the United Netherlands, 1584-1609'' (4 vol., 1860–67) [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4885/4885.txt Gutenberg editions online] For a criticism of Motler see Robert Wheaton, "Motley and the Dutch Historians." ''New England Quarterly'' 1962 35(3): 318-336. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/363823  in Jstor] </ref>
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* [[Jan Romein]], (1893-1962), theoretical and world history<ref> A. C. Otto, "Theorie En Praktijk in De Theoretische Geschiedenis Van Jan Romein" [Theory and Practice in the "Theoretical History" of Jan Romein]. ''Theoretische Geschiedenis'' 1994 21(3): 257-270. Issn: 0167-8310 </ref>
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* [[Jan de Vries]], economic history<ref>See Arthur van Riel, "Review: Rethinking the Economic History of the Dutch Republic: The Rise and Decline of Economic Modernity Before the Advent of Industrialized Growth," ''The Journal of Economic History,'' Vol. 56, No. 1 (Mar., 1996), pp. 223-229 [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2124027 in JSTOR]</ref>
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===Norway===
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*[[Halvdan Koht]] (1873-1965) - peasants; Ibsen
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====[[Poland]]====
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*[[Norman Davies]] (1939-) - modern Polish history.
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*[[Franciszek Bujak]] (1875-1953)
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*[[Jan Rutkowski]] (1886-1949),
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====[[Russia, history]]====
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*[[M. I. Rostovtzeff]] (1870-1952) early <ref> See [http://members.tripod.com/~Kekrops/Hellenistic_Files/Rostovtzeff.html]</ref>
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*[[E. H. Carr]] (1892-1982) ''A History of Soviet Russia,''  (14 vol 1950-1978)<ref> See Michael Cox, , ed., ''E.H. Carr: a critical appraisal,'' (2000)</ref>
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*[[Robert Conquest]] 20c
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*[[Leopold Labedz]] (1920-93)
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*[[Roy Medvedev]] Stalin
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*[[Richard Pipes]] - 20c
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*[[William Taubman]] - Nikita Khrushchev
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====[[Slovenia, history]]====
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*[[Bogo Grafenauer]] (1916--1995)
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====[[Spain, history]]====
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*[[Ida Altman]] - Early modern
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*[[Maria Luisa Ávila]]-Muslim Spain, Women
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*[[Robert I. Burns]] -Medieval
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*[[Brian A Catlos]] -Muslim Spain
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*[[Roger Collins]] Muslim Spain
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*[[Olivia Remie Constable,]]- Medieval History
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*[[Hipólito Escolar]] - printing
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*[[Pierre Guichard]] - Muslim Spain]]
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*[[S.I Imamuddin]] Muslim Spain]]
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*[[Manuela Marin]]- Women
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*[[Julian Ribera y Tarragó]]
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*[[Samuel Miklos Stern]]
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===[[Serbia]]===
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*[[Ilarion Ruvarac]] (1832-1905)
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*[[Vladimir Dedijer]]
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===The [[Middle East]]===
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*[[Ibn Khaldun]]
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*[[Ibn al-Tiqtaqa]] (b. circa 1262) [[Shi'i]] historian wrote [[Al-Fakhīr]]
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*[[‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni]] (1226-1283) [[Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā (‘A History of the World-Conqueror Chingis Khān)]]
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*[[Rashid al-Din]] (circa 1247-1318) [[Jāmi‛-al-Tawārīkh]] [[(‘A Comprehensive Collection of Histories')]], [[Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī]] - a history of the Mongols and Turks
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*[[George Antonius]] (1891-1941) - Arab nationalism
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*[[Anders Bjørkelo]]
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*[[Caroline Finkel]]
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*[[H.A.R. Gibb]] (1895-1971)
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*[[Marshall G.S. Hodgson]] (1922-1968) World Historian, Ismai'ili history
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*[[Albert Hourani]]
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*[[Walid Khalidi]] Palestinian historian
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*[[Bernard Lewis]] - the Middle East
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*[[D. S. Margoliouth]]
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*[[Rex Sean O'Fahey]]
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*[[Michael Oren]]
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*[[David Pryce-Jones]]
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*[[Fazlur Rahman]] (1919-1988)
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*[[Knut Vikør]]
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*[[W. Montgomery Watt]] (1909-2006), life of Muhammad
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===Asia===
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====[[China, history]]====
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*[[Sima Qian]] - Compiled [[Records of the Grand Historian]]
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* [[John King Fairbank]], survey <ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/China-New-History-Second-Enlarged/dp/0674018281/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202253097&sr=8-1] </ref>
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* [[Merle Goldman]] 20th c. <ref> See [] </ref>
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* [[Jacques Gernet]], survey <ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/History-Chinese-Civilization-Jacques-Gernet/dp/0521497817/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202253140&sr=8-1] </ref>
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* [[Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsü]], survey <ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Modern-China-Immanuel-Hsu/dp/0195125045/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202253180&sr=8-1] </ref>
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* [[Ray Huang]] <ref> See [] </ref>
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*  [[Roderick MacFarquhar]], Mao <ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Politics-China-Eras-Mao-Deng/dp/0521588634/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202253206&sr=8-3] </ref>
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* Michael, Franz
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* [[Frederick W. Mote]] imperial <ref> See [] </ref>
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* [[Joseph Needham]], science <ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Loved-China-Masterpiece/dp/0060884592/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202253249&sr=8-13] </ref>
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* [[Benjamin Schwartz]] <ref> See [] </ref>
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* [[Jonathan D. Spence]] <ref> See [] </ref>
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* [http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/pgp/index.html Studies of Modern Chinese History: Reviews and Historiographical Essays]
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====[[Korea, history]]====
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*[[Bruce Cumings]] - modern Korea
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*[[Il-yeon]]
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*[[Kim Bu-sik]] - early annalist
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*[[Kim Dae-Mun]]
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*[[Lee Ki-baek]] - (1924-2004)
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*[[Suh Dae-sook]] - [[Korean War]] and [[North Korea]]
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*[[Yu Deuk-gong]] - [[Balhae]]
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====[[India, history]]====
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*[[A. L. Basham]] (1914-1986)
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*[[Urvashi Butalia]]
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*[[Bipin Chandra]]
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*[[Nicholas Dirks]]
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*[[Ranajit Guha]]
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*[[Ayesha Jalal]]
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*[[Christian Lassen]] 
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*[[Patrick Olivelle]]
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*[[Sumit Sarkar]]
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*[[Tanika Sarkar]]
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*[[Percival Spear]]
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*[[Romila Thapar]]
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*[[Thomas Trautmann]], British Orientalism
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====[[Japan, history]]====
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====[[Australia, history]]====
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*[[Manning Clark]]
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*[[Geoffrey Blainey]]
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==Religion==
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===[[Christianity]]===
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* [[Sydney Ahlstron]], American religion
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*[[Eusebius of Caesarea]] (275–339) - "Father of Church history"
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*[[Alexander Campbell Cheyne]], Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
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* [[Kenneth Scott Latourette]]
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*[[John Gilmary Shea]] (1824-1892) Father of American Catholic History
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====[[Lutheranism]]====
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*[[Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim]] (1694-1755)
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====[[Mormonism]]====
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*[[Leonard J. Arrington]] - 1975-1982
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*[[Fawn M. Brodie]]
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* [[Jan Shipps]]
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====[[History of the Papacy|The Papacy]]====
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*[[Ludwig von Pastor]], wrote 40 volume history of the popes
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==[[Marxist]]==
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* [[Eugene D. Genovese]] - southern U.S., slavery
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* [[Ranajit Guha]] - India
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* [[Christopher Hill]] - 17th century England.
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* [[Eric Hobsbawm]] - modern world.
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* [[Maxime Rodinson]]  Islam
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* [[Sumit Sarkar]] Indian marxist historian
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* [[E. P. Thompson]], British
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==[[Art history]]==
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*[[Nicholas Pevsner]] (1903&ndash;1983) History of art and English architecture
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*[[Josef Strzygowski]] (born 1862) - Architectural history
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==[[Economic history]]==
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*[[Niall Ferguson]], 19th-20th century
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*[[Robert Fogel]] US slavery; health
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*[[David S. Landes]], Europe
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*[[W. W. Rostow]], industrialization
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*[[R. H. Tawney]], [[Industrial Revolution]]
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*[[Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.]]
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* see [[Business history]]
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* see [[Railway history]]
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==Military History==
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* see [[Military History]]
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*[[Correlli Barnett]] - naval<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Generals-Correlli-Barnett/dp/0802139949/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198208081&sr=1-16]</ref>
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*[[Martin van Creveld]] - technology<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Technology-War-2000-B-C-Present/dp/0029331536/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198208111&sr=1-4]</ref>
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*[[Jack Granatstein]] - Canadian<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Canadas-Army-Waging-Keeping-Peace/dp/0802086969/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198208182&sr=1-9]</ref>
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*[[Victor Davis Hanson]] - ancient<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Carnage-Culture-Landmark-Battles-Western/dp/0385720386/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198208148&sr=1-2]</ref>
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*[[Alistair Horne]] - French<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Price-Glory-Verdun-1916/dp/0140170413/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198208223&sr=1-4]</ref>
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*[[Michael Howard]] (1922- ) - Europe<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/War-European-History-Michael-Howard/dp/0192802089/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198208281&sr=1-6]</ref>
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*[[John Keegan]] (1934-) -warfare, combat<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Face-Battle-Study-Agincourt-Waterloo/dp/0140048979/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198208379&sr=1-11]</ref>
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*[[Basil Liddell Hart]] (1895&ndash;1970) -World War I<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Great-Captains-Unveiled-Basil-Liddell/dp/030680686X/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198208423&sr=1-6]</ref>
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*[[Edward Luttwak]] (1942- ) stretegy<ref> See []</ref>
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*[[Alfred Thayer Mahan]], sea power<ref> See []</ref>
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*[[S. L. A. Marshall]] - combat behavior<ref> See []</ref>
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*[[Samuel Eliot Morison]] (1887-1976) - World War II, Columbus, Jones<ref> See []</ref>
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*[[Peter Paret]] -ideas<ref> See []</ref>
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*[[Gordon Prange]] - World War II-Pacific<ref> See []</ref>
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*[[Gerhard Ritter]] - German<ref> See []</ref>
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*[[Hew Strachan]] - World War I.<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/First-World-War-Oxford-Paperback/dp/0199261911/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202252248&sr=8-1]</ref>
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*[[Gerhard Weinberg]] - World War II<ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/World-Arms-Global-History-War/dp/B000Y4M8WU/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202252222&sr=8-1]</ref>
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===[[Espionage]]===
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*[[John Earl Haynes]], American historian of Communist espionage
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*[[David Kahn]], historian of codes
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*[[Victor Suvorov]]
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*[[Nigel West]]
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===[[Maritime history]]===
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*[[Robert G. Albion]]
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*[[Howard I. Chapelle]]
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*[[John Hattendorf]]
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*[[Samuel Eliot Morison]], Columbus, Jones, WWII
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==History of ideas==
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*[[Arthur Lovejoy]] (1873-1962). the Great Chain of Being <ref>Arthur O. Lovejoy, ''The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea.'' (1936);  John P. Diggins, "Arthur O. Lovejoy and the Challenge of Intellectual History," ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' Volume 67, Number 1, January 2006, pp. 181-208 in [[Project Muse]]; Daniel J. Wilson, ''Arthur O. Lovejoy and the Quest for Intelligibility'' (1980)</ref>
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*[[Isaiah Berlin]] (1909-1997)
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*[[J. C. D. Clark]], 18th century Britain
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* [[John P. Diggins]], American political thought<ref>  John P. Diggins,'' The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism'' (1984) </ref>
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*[[Michel Foucault]] (1926 - 1984)
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*[[Peter Gay]] (1923- ) Enlightenment; 20th century
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*[[Perry Miller]], American; Puritanism
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* [[J. G. A. Pocock]], political thought<ref> J. G. A. Pocock, ''The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Tradition'' (1975). </ref>
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*[[Quentin Skinner]], political thought<ref>Quentin Skinner, "Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas," ''History & Theory'' 8 (1969): 3–53.</ref>
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===History of international relations===
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*[[Harry Elmer Barnes]], World wars; revisionist (denied German Guilt in 1914)
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*[[Herbert Butterfield]]
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*[[Gordon A. Craig]], Germany
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*[[John Lewis Gaddis]], Cold War.
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*[[Klaus Hildebrand]]
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*[[Andreas Hillgruber]]
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*[[Paul Kennedy]], British and world; "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"
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*[[William L. Langer]], (1896-1977)
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*[[Eduard Mark]]
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*[[Arno J. Mayer]]
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*[[W.N. Medlicott]]
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*[[Lewis Bernstein Namier]]
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*[[Paul W. Schroeder]], 19c Europe
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*[[A.J.P. Taylor]] (1906-1990) - Europe and England
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*[[Harold Temperley]], (1879-1939), British editor of "British Documents on the Originis of the War, 1898-1914" 
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*[[Odd Arne Westad]] - Professor at the [[London School of Economics]]
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* [[Ernest Llewellyn Woodward]], (1890-1971)
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==History of science and technology==
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*[[Peter Galison]], physics, philosophy, objectivity
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*[[John L. Heilbron]], physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
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*[[Richard L. Hills]], technology
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*[[Thomas P. Hughes]], technology
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*[[Evelyn Fox Keller]], science and gender, biology
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*[[Melvin Kranzberg]], technology
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*[[Daniel J. Kevles]], science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics
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*[[Thomas Kuhn]], astronomy, historiography<ref> Thomas S. Kuhn, ''The Copernican Revolution'' (1957); Kuhn, ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.'' (1962, 1970); Steven Fuller, ''Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times'' (2000)</ref>
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* [[Joseph Needham]], China <ref> See [http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Loved-China-Masterpiece/dp/0060884592/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202253249&sr=8-13] </ref>
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*[[David F. Noble]], industrial development
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*[[Abraham Pais]], physics; Einstein
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*[[A. I. Sabra]], optics, Islamic science
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*[[George Saliba]], Islamic science
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*[[George Sarton]], medieval
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