Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

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1. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

   Author of Civilizations, Near a Thousand Tables : A History of Food, The Americas: A Hemispheric History (Modern Library Chronicles)

2. Thomas Hodgkin

   Author of The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire: Vol I, The Visigothic Invasion, The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire: Vol IV, The Imperial Restoration, The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire: Vol III, The Ostrogoths

3. Roger Hudson

   Author of Nelson and Emma, The Grand Tour, The Jubilee Years 1887-1897

4. Mark Kurlansky

   Author of Salt: A World History, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History

5. Niall Ferguson

   Author of Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000

6. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War: 1890–1914, The First Salute

7. Simon Schama

   Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, The Embarrassment of Riches, Dead Certainties : Unwarranted Speculations

8. William H. McNeill

   Author of Plagues and Peoples, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community

9. John Keegan

   Author of The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, A History of Warfare, Atlas of the Second World War

10. Fernand Braudel

    Author of The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3, A History of Civilizations, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II

11. Roy Porter

    Author of Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul, England in the Eighteenth Century

12. G. M. Young

    Author of Victorian England: Portrait of an Age, A HISTORY OF ENGLAND, Volume VIII: Victorian England (A History of England - The Folio Society, Volume 8)

13. Elie Halevy

    Author of Edwardian England

14. Paul Johnson

    Author of Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830

15. Asa Briggs

    Author of The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 (History of English)

16. George Macaulay Trevelyan

    Author of England Under the Stuarts

17. Margaret Visser

    Author of The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners, Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary

18. Paul M. Kennedy

    Author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

19. David Hackett Fischer

    Author of Champlain's dream, Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas (America: a Cultural History), The Great Wave

20. Jeffrey Steingarten

    Author of The Man Who Ate Everything, It must've been something I ate: the return of the man who ate everything