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x, 548 pages ; 20 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-529) and index. |
| Contents |
Virtual history : towards a "chaotic" theory of the past / Niall Ferguson -- England without Cromwell : what if Charles I had avoided the Civil War? / John Adamson -- British America : what if there had been no American revolution? / J.C.D. Clark -- British Ireland : what if home rule had been enacted in 1912? / Alvin Jackson -- The Kaiser's European Union : what if Britain had "stood aside" in August 1914? / Niall Ferguson -- Hitler's England : what if Nazi Germany had invaded Britain in May 1940? / Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson -- Nazi Europe : what if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union? / Michael Burleigh -- Stalin's War or peace : what if the Cold War had been avoided? / Jonathan Haslam -- Camelot continued : what if John F. Kennedy had lived? / Diane Kunz -- 1989 without Gorbachev : what if Communism had not collapsed? / Mark Almond -- Afterword: A virtual history, 1646-1996 / Niall Ferguson. |
| Summary |
Historians have traditionally refused to ask questions of the past, preferring to assume that whatever happened was inevitable. But Virtual History challenges this complacency as leading historians apply "counterfactual" arguments to decisive moments in modern history.--Publisher description. |
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History, Modern -- 20th century.
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Historiography.
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History -- Philosophy.
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Counterfactuals (Logic)
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Counterfactuals (Logic) (OCoLC)fst00881317
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Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
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History, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00958367
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History -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst00958266
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Added Author |
Ferguson, Niall.
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| ISBN |
0333647289 (pbk.) |
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9780333647288 (pbk.) |
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8430602976 |
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9788430602971 |
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