R. R. Palmer (1909–2002)

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1. Will Durant

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2. R. R. Palmer

   Author of A History of the Modern World, Twelve Who Ruled : The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution, History of The Modern World-Vol. II (Includes Chapters 11-24)

3. Georges Lefebvre

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4. Barbara W. Tuchman

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5. Peter Gay

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6. George Rudé

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7. Bernard Bailyn

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8. Edith Hamilton

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9. Alfred Cobban

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10. Pierre Goubert

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11. Alexis de Tocqueville

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12. Samuel Eliot Morison

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13. Crane Brinton

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14. Stanley Loomis

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15. William W. Freehling

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16. Carl L. Becker

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17. Simon Schama

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18. Christopher Hibbert

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19. Johan Huizinga

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20. Georges Lefebvre

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