Jonathan I. Israel

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1. Jonathan I. Israel

   Author of Radical Enlightenment, The Dutch Republic : Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477-1806, Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752

2. Simon Schama

   Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, The Embarrassment of Riches, Patriots and Liberators

3. P. J. Marshall

   Author of The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford History of the British Empire)

4. J. G. A. Pocock

   Author of The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century, Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 4: Barbarians, Savages and Empires

5. A. N. Porter

   Author of The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century (Oxford History of the British Empire)

6. Geoffrey Parker

   Author of The Thirty Years' War, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, The Dutch Revolt

7. Judith M. Brown

   Author of The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century (Oxford History of the British Empire)

8. Peter Gay

   Author of The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Science of Freedom

9. Steven Nadler

   Author of Spinoza: A Life, A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age, Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind

10. John Huxtable Elliott

    Author of Imperial Spain: 1469-1716, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830, Europe divided, 1559-1598

11. Robin W. Winks

    Author of The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography (Oxford History of the British Empire)

12. Henry Kamen

    Author of Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763, Philip of Spain

13. Johan Huizinga

    Author of The Autumn of the Middle Ages, Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

14. Ernst Cassirer

    Author of The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

15. Isaiah Berlin

    Author of The Crooked Timber of Humanity, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, The Roots of Romanticism

16. Maarten Prak

    Author of The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age

17. Darrin M. McMahon

    Author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

18. Emma Rothschild

    Author of Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment

19. A. J. P. Taylor

    Author of English History, 1914-1945, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918

20. Christopher Hill

    Author of The world turned upside down: radical ideas during the English Revolution, The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714