#twitterstorians in your humble opinions, which historian is the best, most stylish, or most lucid writer? not the quality of the scholarship, but the quality of the *writing*?

(and if you have particular passages to share that would be lovely!)

i ask this partly because i am reading Saidiya Hartman who is amazing, partly because my two faves that spring to mind are anthropologists (and therefore excluded), but also for a broader reason - I think it is very difficult to be lucid and stylish when you are trying to...

kick back hard against widespraead assumptions - because things get bogged down in what seem like technicalities & technical vocabulary

being *affecting* often relies upon *identifying* with some of the material presented: the history i like best recoils from that identification