Alfred W. Crosby

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1. William H. McNeill

   Author of Plagues and Peoples, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000

2. Alfred W. Crosby

   Author of Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900, The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492

3. William Cronon

   Author of Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

4. Fernand Braudel

   Author of The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 1, The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 2, The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3

5. Richard White

   Author of The Middle Ground: Indian, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River, The Frontier in American Culture

6. Marc Bloch

   Author of The Historian's Craft, Feudal Society, Volume 1: The Growth of Ties of Dependence, Feudal Society, Volume 2: Social Classes and Political Organization

7. Richard Hofstadter

   Author of The Age of Reform, Social Darwinism in American Thought

8. Gordon S. Wood

   Author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787

9. Daniel K. Richter

   Author of Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization, Beyond the covenant chain : the Iroquois and their neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800

10. Colin G. Calloway

    Author of New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (The American Moment), The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America

11. Lisa Jardine

    Author of Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution

12. Sidney W. Mintz

    Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

13. Peter Novick

    Author of That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession

14. Eric R. Wolf

    Author of Europe and the People Without History

15. Joyce Appleby

    Author of Telling the Truth About History

16. Georges Duby

    Author of William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry, The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France

17. Robert H. Wiebe

    Author of The Search for Order, 1877-1920

18. Robin Blackburn

    Author of The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800

19. John R. McNeill

    Author of The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (Global Century Series)

20. Kirkpatrick Sale

    Author of The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy