Veeky Forums approved hsitorians ? I really like Richard overy. Just wondering what you guys think about him ? and what are some historians you think are "legit"
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Veeky Forums approved hsitorians ? I really like Richard overy. Just wondering what you guys think about him...
Will Durant
>Richard Ovary
Mine so far is Peter Brown
John Green. Knowledgeable guy who displays wittiness, charisma, humor, and great delivery of content.
Get off my board and never return. You should be ashamed of what you just wrote.
user maybe you should
i like noam chomsky, niall fergusson, edward carr.
huxleys fucking cool too but hes more a futurist as a counter balance to ideas, with that, & Jacque Fresco
hobsbawm a bomb
Herodotus, Livy, Strabo, Polybius, Lindybeige
>One of these things is not like the other
kek
niall "medicine made europe conquer everything" fergusson
This, the guy gets a lot of unfair hate around here. But he's good.
>>One of these things is not like the other
Livy? He's the Roman in the batch.
The youtube guy ?
Chomsky isn't a historian, he's a linguist with opinions.
Christopher Clark
Richard Evans
Robert Service
Geoffry Elton
L.C.B. Seaman
What about Thucydides? I'd say he's a better historian than Herodotus
also A.J.P. Taylor
Donald Kagan
Actually, those are all huge Liars
me desu
For those of you who are not professional historians (or on their way to be): how many non-fiction history books do you guys read a year, more or less?
>2017
>Liking an historian that pretends that his view of history is the only possible way of interpretation
Wew lad
are you by any chance a postmodernist charlatan?
Go and read the way he presents Pericle's speech after the first year of the Archidamian war
>Geoffry Elton
what have you read by him. didn't he write tons of long books on tudor england?
Currently reading his work on the Reformation, and I also own his "The Practice of History", though I haven't read it yet.