Influences
During his time as President of the American Historical Association, Louis wrote an essay entitled "Historians I Have Known," which discusses at length the historians who had the most profound impact on his own scholarship. Louis spends the majority of the essay discussing a handful of Oxford historians, each of which, in their own way, are among the most prominent and influential scholars of their generation: A.J.P. Taylor, Margery Perham, Ronald Robinson, John Gallagher, and Max Beloff. Other influences include Barrington Moore, Jr., Ernest May, and Arthur Smithies - all of Harvard - and Vincent Harlow, Roger Owen, Christopher Platt, Sarvepalli Gopal, and Albert Hourani, all of Oxford.
Louis's scholarship is also influenced by J. C. Hurewitz, a prominent scholar of Israel and Palestine. In the preface to his highly regarded book, The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951, (Clarendon, 1984) Louis stated that “my views on Arab nationalism and Zionism, and on the United States and the Middle East, have been influenced by the sensitive and dead-on-the-mark observations of J. C. Hurewitz.”
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