> Hard choices! How can one choose among the likes of Eric Hobsbawm, >
> Fernand Braudel and Hugh Trevor-Roper, to name just a few? Each in
> his own way shifted the historical paradigm in their fields.
I love Hobsbawm.
Michel Foucault, who changed everything.
The Subaltern Studies school of post-colonial historians, and the
interesting Indian historians particularly Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, and
Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Edward Said.
Personal favourites Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Redicker ("The Many Headed
Hydra", great history of the revolutionary Atlantic), Gregory Kealey and
Bryan Palmer ("Dreaming of What Might Be" , great history of the Knights of
Labor in Ontario), Anne McClinrock ("Imperial Leather" is groundbreaking
history of sexuality and empire).
I'll resist the temptation to keep running through my library!
In Klio's name,
Sam Wagar
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