Who is you're favorite academic or historian?
Pic related. This guy probably wrote the most incisive history of western civilization ever.
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php?post/Jones-Eugene-Michael-The-Jewish-Revolutionary-Spirit-and-Its-Impact-on-World-History
John Green.
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This book has completely changed the way I view history.
Otto Seeck
No one even comes close to his acute perception of the essentials.
If you want to understand how civilizations die, his "Geschichte" remains the greatest exposition ever written.
The Master
Interesting thread. up